Nicodemus (given name)
Nicodemus is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning “victory of the people.” Nicodemus is a Biblical figure. Nikodem, a Croatian and Polish version of the name, was among the most popular names for newborn boys in Poland in 2022.
Versions in different languages
- Albanian: Nikodem
- Arabic: نيقوديموس, نيقوديم
- Basque: Nikodemo
- Belarusian: Нікадзім
- Bulgarian: Никодим
- Catalan: Nicodem
- Chinese: 尼哥底母
- Croatian: Nikodem
- Czech: Nikodém, Nikodým
- Danish: Nikodemus
- Dutch: Nikodemus
- Esperanto: Nikodemo
- Finnish: Nikodemos
- French: Nicodème
- German: Nikodemus
- Greek: Νικόδημος
- Hebrew: ניקודמוס
- Hungarian: Nikodémosz
- Indonesian: Nikodemus
- Italian: Nicodemo
- Japanese: ニコデモ
- Kiswahili: Nikodemo
- Korean: 니고데모
- Macedonian: Никодим
- Maltese: Nikodemu
- Norwegian: Nikodemus
- Polish: Nikodem
- Portuguese: Nicodemo
- Romanian: Nicodim
- Russian: Никодим
- Serbian: Никодим
- Slovak: Nikodém
- Slovenian: Nikodém
- Spanish: Nicodemo
- Swedish: Nikodemos
- Tamil: நிக்கதேம்
- Ukrainian: Никодим
People
Saints
- Nicodemus, Jewish pharisee and secret disciple of Christ
- Nicodemus of Mammola, Italian hermit
- Nicodemus of Palermo, Eastern Orthodox bishop in Sicily
- Nicodemus I of Peć, Serbian Archbishop and monk-scribe
- Nicodemus of Tismana, Eastern Orthodox monastic founder, translator and monk-scribe in the Balkans
- Nicodemus the Hagiorite, Greek Orthodox philosopher, hagiographer, and monk
- Nicodemus of Dalmatia, Serbian Orthodox bishop and hieroconfessor
Others
- Nicodemus ben Gurion, a wealthy Jewish man who lived in Jerusalem in the 1st century AD.
- Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German scholar
- Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Swedish architect and city planner
- Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, Swedish architect
- Nicodème Audet, Canadian merchant and politician
- Nikodim Kondakov, Russian historian
- Nicodemus D. Wernette, American judge
- Nicodemo Scarfo, Italian-American mafioso
- Nicodemus (musician), Jamaican dancehall deejay
- Nikodimos Papavasiliou, Cypriot manager and former footballer
- Fred Nicodemus, a physicist, author of the bidirectional reflectance distribution function
Apocryphal gospel
- Gospel of Nicodemus, a fourth-century apocryphal gospel, claimed to be derived from a work by Nicodemus from the Gospel of John
Fictional characters
- Nicodemus, a wise rat who helps the title character in the book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and in the 1982 animated film adaptation The Secret of NIMH
- Nicodemus, Robin Williams' character's dog in the License to Wed
- Nicodemus, a villain in Batman
- Nicodemus Archleone, a villain in The Dresden Files
- Nicodemus Boffin, nouveau riche character in Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend
- Nicodemus Dumps, misanthropic character in Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz tale the Bloomsbury Christening
- Nicodemus Legend, the protagonist in the television series Legend
- Nicodemus, the deputy of the sheriff in the Christian children's show ''The Gospel Bill Show''