Nikanor

Gender Masculine
Usage Ancient Greek [1], Biblical Greek [2], Russian (Rare)
Scripts Νικάνωρ(Ancient Greek) Никанор(Russian)

Meaning & History

Greek and Russian form of Nicanor.

Related Names

Rootsnike + aner
VariantsNicander, Nicanor, Nikandros(Ancient Greek)
Other Languages & CulturesNicanor(Biblical) Nicanor(Biblical Latin) Nicanor(Spanish) Nikandr(Ukrainian)

Name Days

Croatia: July 28
Poland: January 10
Poland: June 5

Categories

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Sources & References

  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Νικάνωρ.
  2. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g3527, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g3527.
Entry updated October 6, 2024