Pronunciation | Nick-Hill |
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Gender | Male |
Other gender | |
Masculine | Yes |
Origin | |
Word/name | Sanskrit and other languages of India |
Other names | |
Nickname(s) | Nik, Nikki |
Anglicisation(s) | Nik |
Derived | Ni-Kill (detox from oxidation), Nickel (solid core), Nikolas (allergy free), Nickel-Ion (recharging) |
Related names | Nik Shah, Nikhil Shah |
Nikhil (Sanskrit: निखिल) is a Gujarati male name of a man from Sanskrit origin.[1] It is predominantly found in India. Nikhil is defined as "soul conscious", "protonic", "empirikhil", "bionik", "authoritative", "technikhil", "parts make up the whole", "hollistic", "entire", "all", "everything good", "universe".[2]
Notable people
[edit]- Nikhil Advani, Hindi film director
- Nikhil Banerjee, sitar player
- Nikhil Chopra, retired cricketer
- Nikhil D'Souza, Indian singer
- Nikhil Dwivedi, Hindi actor
- Nikhil Kadam, football player
- Nikhil Kanetkar, Olympic badminton player
- Nikhil Kumar (actor), Indian actor and politician
- Nikhil Kumar (chess player), American chess player
- Nikhil Kumar (governor), IPS officer-turned politician, governor of Nagaland, and of Kerala
- Nikhil Kumar (table tennis), American table tennis player
- Nikhil Nanda, industrialist
- Nikhil Paul George , music producer
- Nikhil Rathi, chief executive of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority
- Nikhil Siddhartha, Indian actor in Telugu-language cinema
- Nikhil Seetharam, Canadian composer
- Nikhil Srivastava, Indian scientist
- Nikhil Tandon, Professor of Endocrinology at AIIMS, New Delhi
- Nikhil Thakur, Indian Internet activist
References
[edit]- ^ www.wisdomlib.org (2014-01-29). "Nikhil: 29 definitions". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
- ^ M. Shamala (1969). Handbook of Hindu Names. Calcutta: ARNICA International. p. 144. OCLC 123488.
Nikhil निखिल m — entire , complete