# 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; Nikodém is the Czech and Slovak 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
* Nicodemus D. Wernette (1885–1956), justice of the Idaho Supreme Court
* 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