Meaning not yet researched.
Niko: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,046 in 2025. Its best rank was #287 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #287 in 2022; #325 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Niko in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#325 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #287.
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Niko: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,046 boys in 2025. Peak: #287 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 1,192 (2022).
In 2025, 1,046 US boys were named Niko, making it the 325th most common boys’ name of the year, up 19 places from #344 in 2024. That is 42 more than the 1,004 boys named Niko in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #287, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,192. For comparison, it was #629 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Niko in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 15,135 US babies have been given the name, 3.3% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,426 babies named Niko.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,560 US boys were named Niko; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,192. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,633 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Niko ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #134 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nico (22,322 babies since 1880), Nikolai (11,027 babies since 1880), Nikolaus (2,656 babies since 1880) and Nikolaos (2,072 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nikos, Neeko and Nekko are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nikos (882), Neeko (420), Nekko (45), Niilo (44), Nikodemus (11), Neako (11), Nikoah (11), Nykko (5).
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 Niko in the open dataset we use.
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 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 7 | #134 | — |
| Delaware | 8 | #136 | — |
| New Mexico | 14 | #144 | — |
| California | 185 | #201 | #434 |
| Connecticut | 17 | #208 | — |
| Nevada | 14 | #225 | #378 |
| Oregon | 19 | #228 | #617 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #243 | #312 |
| Massachusetts | 25 | #245 | #603 |
| Washington | 31 | #249 | #623 |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | #258 | #406 |
| Colorado | 25 | #268 | #392 |
| Michigan | 37 | #274 | #524 |
| New York | 68 | #275 | #587 |
| Ohio | 42 | #295 | #552 |
| Arizona | 26 | #304 | #710 |
| Florida | 63 | #311 | #473 |
| Kansas | 12 | #317 | #558 |
| Minnesota | 19 | #321 | #880 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #328 | #916 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #333 | #836 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #338 | — |
| Idaho | 7 | #363 | #335 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #386 | — |
| Georgia | 30 | #391 | #1,336 |
| North Carolina | 29 | #393 | #961 |
| Illinois | 28 | #393 | #667 |
| Texas | 88 | #406 | #852 |
| Missouri | 16 | #413 | — |
| Tennessee | 19 | #425 | — |
| Utah | 11 | #430 | #667 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #474 | — |
| Indiana | 15 | #476 | — |
| New Jersey | 16 | #481 | #472 |
| Iowa | 7 | #483 | #445 |
| Virginia | 15 | #514 | #712 |
| Maryland | 9 | #553 | #862 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,269 | 1,046 | #325 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,857 | 1,004 | #344 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,944 | 1,037 | #320 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,154 | 1,192 | #287 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,346 | 1,173 | #290 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,474 | 870 | #358 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,480 | 743 | #416 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,435 | 549 | #518 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,339 | 507 | #549 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,741 | 439 | #613 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,968 | 425 | #629 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,989 | 432 | #618 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,462 | 433 | #587 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,516 | 346 | #688 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,572 | 303 | #749 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,033 | 278 | #789 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,769 | 273 | #814 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,431 | 264 | #831 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,582 | 217 | #915 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,155 | 190 | #978 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,104 | 162 | #1,038 |
| 2004 | — | — | 175 | #961 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,081 | 177 | #930 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,910 | 158 | #995 |
| 2001 | — | — | 166 | #938 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,775 | 140 | #1,038 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,152 | 123 | #1,093 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,890 | 148 | #949 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,260 | 147 | #928 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,436 | 146 | #905 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,235 | 166 | #836 |
| 1994 | — | — | 156 | #859 |
| 1993 | — | — | 142 | #904 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,335 | 141 | #891 |
| 1991 | — | — | 170 | #791 |
| 1990 | — | — | 171 | #776 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,852 | 141 | #847 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,248 | 75 | #1,171 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,821 | 11 | #4,161 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,750 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,541 |
| 1984 | — | — | 18 | #2,674 |
| 1983 | — | — | 21 | #2,388 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,733 | 7 | #5,436 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,170 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,021 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,841 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,905 | 8 | #4,443 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,147 | 8 | #4,463 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,065 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,065 | 6 | #5,265 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,399 | 8 | #4,082 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,591 | 16 | #2,473 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,959 | 13 | #2,776 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,894 | 12 | #2,925 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,824 | 9 | #3,448 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,914 | 5 | #4,831 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,691 | 6 | #3,999 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,355 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,466 |
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).