Nikhil ( sa, निखिल) is a male name of
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominalization, nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cul ...
origin. It is predominantly found in
India
India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...
,
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...
, and the diaspora of these countries. The name means "complete" or "whole". It is an epithet of the
Hindu deity
Vishnu
Vishnu ( ; , ), also known as Narayana and Hari, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the supreme being within Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within contemporary Hinduism.
Vishnu is known as "The Preserver" within ...
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Notable people
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Nikhil Advani
Nikhil Suresh Advani (born 28 April 1971) is an Indian film and television director, writer and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He along with his sister, Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani, co-founded the entertainment company Emmay Entert ...
, Hindi film director
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Nikhil Banerjee (1931–1986), Indian classical sitar player
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Nikhil Chopra, Indian cricketer
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Nikhil D'Souza, Indian singer
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Nikhil Dwivedi, Hindi actor and producer
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Nikhil Kadam, Indian footballer Nikhil Kashyap
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Nikhil Kanetkar
Nikhil Kanetkar (born 13 May 1979) is the only Olympic badminton player from Pune India.
Born in a Maharashtrian family, Kanetkar played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, defeating Sergio Llopis of Spain in the first rou ...
, Indian Olympic badminton player
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Nikhil Kumar
Nikhil Kumar (born 15 July 1941) is a former IPS officer-turned politician hailing from Bihar who was Governor of Nagaland from 2009 to 2013 and Governor of Kerala from 2013 to 2014. One of country's well known IPS officers of 1963 batch f ...
, Indian politician, Governor of Nagaland and of Kerala
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Nikhil Nanda
Nikhil Nanda is an Indian businessman. Part of the Nanda family, Kapoor family and Bachchan Family, he is the chairman and managing director of Escorts Limited, an engineering company founded in 1944 by his paternal grandfather, Har Prasad Na ...
, Indian industrialist
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Nikhil Rathi
Nikhil Rathi (born 5 August 1979) is the chief executive of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Early life
Rathi is of Indian descent, and grew up in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, the son of Madhu and Dr Rajendra Rathi, a local magistra ...
, British chief executive of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority
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Nikhil Seetharam
Nikhil Seetharam is a multi-platinum Grammy winning Canadian composer and record producer from Toronto, Ontario. He has worked with several notable artists such as Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, and DJ Khaled. Nikhil composes film and televis ...
, Canadian composer
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Nikhil Sharma
Nikhil Sharma is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, ''Emmerdale'', played by Rik Makarem. He made his first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 11 September 2009. Makarem's departure from the soap was announce ...
, fictional character from the British TV soap opera ''Emmerdale''
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Nikhil Siddhartha
Nikhil Siddhartha (born 1 June 1985) is an Indian actor of the Telugu film industry. He played minor roles in various films before being cast in '' Happy Days'' (2007) as one of the four male leads. The film was successful and became his break ...
, Telugu actor
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Nikhil Srivastava
Nikhil Srivastava is an associate professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman.
Early life and education
Nikhil Srivastava was b ...
, Indian scientist at the University of California, Berkeley
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Nikhil Tandon, Indian professor of endocrinology at AIIMS, New Delhi
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Nikhil Thakur, Indian Internet activist
See also
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Akilan
Akilandam, better known by his pen name Akilan, was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Tamil. He was attracted by Gandhian philosophy during his school days and he discontinued his college education at Pudukkottai to join the freedom st ...
, similar name with Tamil structure
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Akhil, another name with similar etymological structure
References
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