Nicodemus is a Greek name that means "victory of the people", from nike, victory, and demos, people. In the Gospel of John, Nicodemus is the Pharisee who visits Jesus at night and later helps bury him, and in American history the name belongs to Nicodemus, Kansas, a town founded by formerly enslaved people in 1877. Nicodemus has moved between numbers 2744 and 4063 among US boys over the past decade and ranks 2826 in 2025.