Nico
Nico is a boy's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 174th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 174th. About 22,000 Nicos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nico boys named Nico
Girls and boys called Nico
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Nico crossed from girls to boys in 1976, and has stayed there for 40 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 45 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 22,322
- Estimated living today
- 22,000
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 174th
- Rank in 2025
- 174th
- First recorded
- 1960
- Girls / boys
- 1,028 / 21,294
How old the living Nicos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 22,322 babies given the name since 1960, about 22,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 17,000 of them are children and 5 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Nicos
- Nico Rosberg (born 1985)German–Finnish former Formula 1 racing driver
- Nico Hülkenberg (born 1987)Formula One racing driver
- Nico Williams (born 2002)Spanish footballer
- Nico (1938–1988)German singer and actress
- Nico Schlotterbeck (born 1999)German association football player
- Nico Elvedi (born 1996)Swiss association football player
- Nico Paz (born 2004)Argentine-Spanish footballer
- Nico O'Reilly (born 2005)English footballer
People named Nico with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nico is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nico is most concentrated in Nevada (3.0×), Connecticut (2.3×), New Jersey (2.1×), California (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Nico peaked:
Nico elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Nico | 9,242 | 17th |
| Switzerland boys | Nico | 5,929 | 7th |
| England and Wales boys | Nico | 3,838 | 165th |
| Italy boys | Nico | 2,076 | — |
| Spain boys | Nico | 1,945 | 44th |
| Scotland boys | Nico | 639 | 73rd |
| Belgium boys | Nico | 626 | 191st |
| France boys | Nico | 345 | 1,096th |
| Poland boys | Nico | 324 birth registrations | 232nd |
| New Zealand boys | Nico | 191 | 66th |
| England and Wales girls | Nico | 184 | 1,995th |
| Ireland boys | Nico | 91 | 370th |
| France girls | Nico | 55 | 6,146th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Nico | 47 | 253rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Nico: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Nico | 5,778 | 0.464% | 3rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Nico | 58 | 0.013% | 287th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Nico | 65 | 0.100% | 45th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Nico | 28 | 0.753% | 3rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Nico is most concentrated in Graubünden, where 0.70% of children were given it – 264 of them.
Nico: rank by region
In 2025, Nico was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Nico | 642 | 8 |
In 2025, Nico was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Nico | 164 | 2 |
| Lubuskie | Nico | 138 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Nico | 212 | 3 |
| Wielkopolskie | Nico | 175 | 5 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Nico | 168 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Nico by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 162 | 121st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Nico among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Nico | 5,261 | 9,330 |
| Finland boys | Nico | 2,943 | 3,267 |
| the Netherlands girls | Nico | 36 | 155 |
| Finland girls | Nico | 15 | 15 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Nico lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 4,353 men called Nico were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coruña, A | Nico | 226 | 0.415 | 239 |
| Lugo | Nico | 61 | 0.386 | 261 |
| Cantabria | Nico | 108 | 0.376 | 255 |
| Barcelona | Nico | 1,064 | 0.365 | 259 |
| Pontevedra | Nico | 151 | 0.330 | 274 |
| Ourense | Nico | 45 | 0.307 | 307 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Nico against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.