Nikon
Barely more than forty Polish men carry it, so most people here have never met one. The name comes from Greek and means "victory".
Nikon Pronunciation
Nikon is pronounced NYEE-kon (/ˈɲikɔn/).
What Nikon means
Where Nikon comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nikon grows from the Greek nikē, victory. The same root gave Nike, the winged goddess who settled battles and footraces alike, and it seeded a family of Greek names built on triumph. Nikon carried the sense plainly. To bear it was to be called the victorious one.
The name found its deepest home in Russia. Patriarch Nikon of Moscow led the Russian Orthodox Church from 1652 and forced reforms on the liturgy. Those reforms split the church and left a schism, the Raskol, that outlived him. His name stayed bound to that rupture and to the office he held.
In Poland Nikon stays rare. A boy called Nikon on a class register sits a little apart from the Piotrs and Jakubs beside him. The meaning has not faded. In English it reads as victory. In Polish, zwycięstwo.
When Nikon celebrates name day
Nikon appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 23 March.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Nikon
1 in 520639 men in Poland is named Nikon. 41 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6056 among male names.
Nikon's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Nikon is most popular
Nikon is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (3 boys born 2019–2025).
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Masovian3 boys born+510%
Nikon as a middle name
Nikon is a first name for 41 men in Poland and a middle name for another 5, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4909th, between Nicki (5) and Nimrod (5).
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#4907 Ngoni5
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#4908 Nicki5
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#4909 Nikon5
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#4910 Nimrod5
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#4911 Nitinkumar5