Meaning not yet researched.
Nico: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,066 in 2025. Its best rank was #174 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99% of babies named Nico in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#174 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Nico: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,066 boys in 2025. Peak: #174 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 2,066 (2025).
In 2025, 2,066 US boys were named Nico, making it the 174th most common boys’ name of the year, up 38 places from #212 in 2024. That is 380 more than the 1,686 boys named Nico in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #174, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,066. For comparison, it was #464 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nico in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 6 babies. In all, 22,322 US babies have been given the name, 4.6% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 9,300 babies named Nico.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,237 US boys were named Nico; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,066. In 2025 that was about 1 in 827 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nico ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #52 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Nicholas (929,199 babies since 1880), Nicole (596,465 babies since 1880), Niko (15,135 babies since 1880) and Nikko (4,702 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Neko, Nicco and Neiko are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Neko (1,248), Nicco (1,173), Neiko (797), Nieko (325), Nicko (299), Neco (225), Nyko (194), Nicoya (64), Nikoa (42), Nickoy (10), Niqo (6), Nicoe (6), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Nico in the open dataset we use.
Nico is listed as a nickname for Nicholas, Nicodemus, Nicolas, Nikolas.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 4 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 15 | #52 | #282 |
| New Jersey | 124 | #72 | #196 |
| Connecticut | 40 | #89 | #185 |
| Rhode Island | 12 | #95 | #226 |
| Pennsylvania | 120 | #106 | #231 |
| New York | 165 | #108 | #295 |
| Massachusetts | 65 | #111 | #220 |
| Vermont | 5 | #118 | — |
| California | 328 | #121 | #370 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #121 | — |
| Oregon | 30 | #140 | #353 |
| Utah | 35 | #156 | #743 |
| Illinois | 76 | #159 | #516 |
| Delaware | 7 | #161 | — |
| Nevada | 19 | #167 | — |
| Colorado | 43 | #169 | #317 |
| Ohio | 80 | #169 | #551 |
| Michigan | 59 | #171 | #352 |
| Washington | 50 | #175 | #557 |
| Florida | 120 | #184 | #530 |
| Idaho | 15 | #186 | — |
| Alaska | 5 | #187 | — |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #200 | — |
| Arizona | 41 | #207 | #618 |
| New Mexico | 10 | #208 | #383 |
| Maryland | 28 | #213 | #685 |
| Kansas | 19 | #215 | #498 |
| Virginia | 39 | #228 | #459 |
| South Carolina | 25 | #230 | — |
| Minnesota | 27 | #236 | #402 |
| Texas | 164 | #239 | #730 |
| Iowa | 17 | #241 | — |
| Maine | 5 | #259 | — |
| Montana | 5 | #269 | — |
| Tennessee | 32 | #280 | — |
| North Carolina | 44 | #281 | #812 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #284 | — |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #295 | #369 |
| Indiana | 27 | #297 | #565 |
| Missouri | 22 | #311 | — |
| Kentucky | 14 | #367 | — |
| Alabama | 15 | #369 | — |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #389 | — |
| Louisiana | 13 | #391 | #781 |
| Georgia | 29 | #401 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #419 | — |
| Arkansas | 7 | #478 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,633 | 2,066 | #174 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,188 | 1,686 | #212 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,258 | 1,468 | #240 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,441 | 1,474 | #237 |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,151 | 1,359 | #259 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,984 | 1,045 | #318 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,538 | 929 | #356 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,319 | 844 | #382 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,899 | 755 | #412 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,604 | 611 | #497 |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,050 | 652 | #464 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,085 | 651 | #454 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,850 | 567 | #487 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,674 | 501 | #524 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,133 | 530 | #494 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,796 | 422 | #594 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,604 | 452 | #583 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,988 | 366 | #662 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,036 | 348 | #683 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,759 | 342 | #667 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,072 | 273 | #740 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,172 | 282 | #694 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,979 | 238 | #753 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,720 | 248 | #717 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,822 | 193 | #841 |
| 2000 | — | — | 190 | #843 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,092 | 202 | #780 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,087 | 164 | #890 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,804 | 158 | #882 |
| 1996 | — | — | 158 | #872 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,232 | 193 | #773 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,047 | 203 | #738 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,941 | 221 | #698 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,329 | 283 | #613 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,129 | 259 | #635 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,008 | 266 | #621 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,380 | 315 | #546 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,242 | 96 | #990 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,480 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,221 | 10 | #4,373 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,967 |
| 1984 | — | — | 18 | #2,673 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,450 | 16 | #2,876 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,876 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,590 | 11 | #3,782 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,899 | 11 | #3,774 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,743 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,174 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,142 | 19 | #2,431 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,469 | 18 | #2,478 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,062 | 10 | #3,598 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,670 | 9 | #3,748 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,590 | 13 | #2,818 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,030 | 14 | #2,624 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,122 | 15 | #2,519 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,398 | 12 | #2,834 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,285 | 11 | #2,806 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,061 | 10 | #2,858 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,874 | 7 | #3,455 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,814 |
| 1963 | — | — | 12 | #2,500 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,938 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).