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Nisse (male)

Pet Name for:Niklas (M) Nils (M)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
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Notes:

Swedish pet name for Nils and for Niklas, Scandinavian forms of Nicholas [q.v.], from Greek "victory (of the) people".
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