Nicodemus (given name)

Nicodemus

Jesus Christ instructing Nicodemus by Jacob Jordaens.
Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	Greek
Origin
Meaning	“Victory of the people”

Nicodemus is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning “victory of the people.” Nicodemus is a Biblical figure.^[1] Nikodem, a Croatian and Polish version of the name, was among the most popular names for newborn boys in Poland in 2022.^[2]

• Albanian: Nikodem
• Arabic: نيقوديموس (Niqudimus), نيقوديم (Niqudim)
• Basque: Nikodemo
• Belarusian: Нікадзім (Nikadzim)
• Bulgarian: Никодим (Nikodim)
• Catalan: Nicodem
• Chinese: 尼哥底母 (Ní gē dǐ mǔ)
• Croatian: Nikodem
• Czech: Nikodém
• Danish: Nikodemus
• Dutch: Nikodemus
• Esperanto: Nikodemo
• Finnish: Nikodemos
• French: Nicodème
• German: Nikodemus
• Greek: Νικόδημος (Nikódimos)
• Hebrew: ניקודמוס (Nyqwdmws)
• Hungarian: Nikodémosz
• Indonesian: Nikodemus
• Italian: Nicodemo
• Japanese: ニコデモ (Nikodemo)
• Kiswahili: Nikodemo
• Korean: 니고데모 (Nigodemo)
• Macedonian: Никодим (Nikodim)
• Maltese: Nikodemu
• Norwegian: Nikodemus
• Polish: Nikodem
• Portuguese: Nicodemo
• Romanian: Nicodim
• Russian: Никодим (Nikodim)
• Serbian: Никодим (Nikodim)
• Slovak: Nikodém
• Slovenian: Nikodém
• Spanish: Nicodemo
• Swedish: Nikodemos
• Tamil: நிக்கதேம் (Nikodim)
• Ukrainian: Никодим (Nykodym)

• Nicodemus, Jewish pharisee and secret disciple of Christ
• Nicodemus of Mammola (900–990), Italian hermit
• Nicodemus of Palermo (died 1083), Eastern Orthodox bishop in Sicily
• Nicodemus I of Peć (died 1325), Serbian Archbishop and monk-scribe
• Nicodemus of Tismana (c. 1320–1406), Balkan Orthodox monastic founder, translator and monk-scribe
• Nicodemus the Hagiorite (1749–1809), Greek Orthodox philosopher, hagiographer, and monk
• Nicodemus of Dalmatia (1845–1915), Serbian Orthodox bishop and hieroconfessor
• Nicodemus (Krotkov) (1868–1938), Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich

• Nikodim II, Serbian Patriarch (r. 1445–1455)
• Nicodemus (Rusnak) (1921–2011), Ukrainian Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv
• Nikodim Rotov (1929–1978), Russian Orthodox archbishop
• Nikodim Tsarknias (born 1942), Macedonian monk in Greece

• Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (1547–1590), German scholar
• Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654–1728), Swedish architect and city planner
• Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615–1681), Swedish architect
• Nicodème Audet (1822–1905), Canadian merchant and politician
• Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925), Russian historian
• Nicodemus D. Wernette (1885–1956), American judge
• Nicodemo Scarfo (1929–2017), Italian-American mafioso
• Nicodemus (musician) (1957–1996), Jamaican dancehall deejay
• Nikodimos Papavasiliou (born 1970), Cypriot manager and former footballer
• Fred Nicodemus, a physicist, author of the bidirectional reflectance distribution function

• Gospel of Nicodemus, a fourth-century apocryphal gospel, claimed to be derived from a work by Nicodemus from the Gospel of John

• 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, father of Empress Eartia in the American comic book Atarian Conquest
• 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 (Gospel Bill) in the Christian children's show The Gospel Bill Show