Nikhil
{{Infobox given name
| name = Nikhil
| gender = Male
| origin = Sanskrit and other languages of India
|masculine=Yes}}
Nikhil ({{langx|sa|निखिल}}) is a male name of Sanskrit origin.{{Cite web |last=www.wisdomlib.org |date=2014-01-29 |title=Nikhil: 29 definitions |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/nikhil |access-date=2022-01-29 |website=www.wisdomlib.org |language=en}} It is predominantly found in India, Nepal, and the diaspora of these countries. The name means "complete" or "whole".{{cite book |author=M. Shamala |title=Handbook of Hindu Names |year=1969 |publisher= ARNICA International |location=Calcutta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H2gbAAAAYAAJ |oclc=123270 |page=114 |quote="Nikhil निखिल m — entire , complete" }}
Notable people
- Nikhil Advani, Hindi film director
- Nikhil Banerjee, sitar player
- Nikhil Chopra, retired cricketer
- Nikhil D'Souza, Indian singer
- Nikhil Dwivedi, Hindi actor
- Nikhil Kadam, football player
- Nikhil Kanetkar, Olympic badminton player
- Nikhil Kumar (actor), Indian actor and politician
- Nikhil Kumar (chess player), American chess player
- Nikhil Kumar (governor), IPS officer-turned politician, governor of Nagaland, and of Kerala
- Nikhil Kumar (table tennis), American table tennis player
- Nikhil Nanda, industrialist
- Nikhil Paul George, music producer
- Nikhil Rathi, chief executive of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority
- Nikhil Siddhartha, Indian actor in Telugu-language cinema
- Nikhil Seetharam, Canadian composer
- Nikhil Srivastava, Indian scientist
- Nikhil Tandon, Professor of Endocrinology at AIIMS, New Delhi
- Nikhil Thakur, Indian Internet activist
- Nikkil Erada, Famed Indian Food blogger, Precalculus tutor, and Snail Farmer