Last name origins & meanings:
- English and Dutch: from the personal name (Greek Nikolaos,
from nikān ‘to conquer’ + laos ‘people’). Forms with
-ch- are due to hypercorrection (compare Anthony). The
name in various vernacular forms was popular among Christians
throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, largely as a result of the fame
of a 4th-century Lycian bishop, about whom a large number of legends
grew up, and who was venerated in the Orthodox Church as well as the
Catholic. In English-speaking countries, this surname is also found as
an Americanized form of various Greek surnames such as
Papanikolaou ‘(son of) Nicholas the priest’ and patronymics
such as Nikolopoulos.
- The colonial official and revolutionary patriot Robert Carter
Nicholas was from a prominent VA family on both sides. His father was
a British navy surgeon who emigrated in about 1700 from Lancashire,
England, to Williamsburg, VA.
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