Nikhil ( sa, निखिल) is a male name of
Sanskrit origin. It is predominantly found in
India,
Nepal, and the diaspora of these countries. The name means "complete" or "whole". It is an epithet of the
Hindu
Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...
deity
Vishnu.
Notable people
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Nikhil Advani, Hindi film director
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Nikhil Banerjee (1931–1986), Indian classical sitar player
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Nikhil Chopra
Nikhil Chopra (born 19 August 1973) is a retired Indian cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two ba ...
, 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, Indian Olympic badminton player
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Nikhil Kumar, Indian politician, Governor of Nagaland and of Kerala
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Nikhil Nanda, Indian industrialist
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Nikhil Rathi, British chief executive of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority
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Nikhil Seetharam, Canadian composer
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Nikhil Sharma, fictional character from the British TV soap opera ''Emmerdale''
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Nikhil Siddhartha, Telugu actor
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Nikhil Srivastava, 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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