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
Different versions of the name are in use in countries all over the world. Niqudimus and Niqudim are the Arabic versions; Nikadzim is the Belarusian version; Nicodem is the Catalan version; Ní gē dǐ mǔ is the Chinese version; Nicodème is the French version of the name; Nikodemos is the Finnish and Swedish version; Nikódimos is the Greek version of the name; Nikodemus is the Danish, Dutch, German, Indonesian, and Norwegian version; Nikodémosz is the Hungarian version; Nicodemo is the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish version; Nikodemo is the Basque, Esperanto, Japanese, and Kiswahili version; Nigodemo is the Korean version; Nicodim is the Romanian version; Nikodim is the Russian and Serbian version; Nikkatēm is the Tamil version; Nykodym is the Ukrainian version.

People

 * Nicodemus (Krotkov) (1868–1938), Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Kostroma and Galich
 * Nicodemus (musician) (1957–1996), Jamaican dancehall deejay
 * Nicodemus (Rusnak) (1921–2011), Ukrainian Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv
 * Nicodemus of Mammola (900–990), Italian hermit and saint
 * Nicodemus of Palermo (died 1083), bishop
 * Saint Nikodim I, Serbian Archbishop, 1316–1324
 * Nikodim II, Serbian Patriarch (c. 1445-1455)
 * Nicodème Audet (1822–1905), Canadian merchant and politician
 * Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (1547–1590), German scholar
 * Nicodemus the Hagiorite (1749–1809), saint
 * Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925), Russian historian
 * Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad (1929–1978)
 * Nikodimos Papavasiliou (born 1970), Cypriot manager and former footballer
 * Nicodemo Scarfo (1929–2017), Italian American mafioso
 * Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654–1728), Swedish architect and city planner
 * Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615–1681), Swedish architect
 * Nikodim Tsarknias (born 1942), Macedonian monk
 * Fred Nicodemus, a physicist, author of the bidirectional reflectance distribution function

Apocryphal Gospel

 * Gospel of Nicodemus, a fourth century CE Apocryphal Gospel, claimed to be derived from a work by Nicodemus from St. John's Gospel

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, 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