Nicolo
Nicolo is a boy's name that peaked in 2024, when it was the 2,750th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,718th. About 1,400 Nicolos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Nicolo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,571
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 2,750th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,718th
- First recorded
- 1914
How old the living Nicolos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,571 babies given the name since 1914, about 1,400 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 650 of them are children and 17 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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 Nicolos
- Nicolò Barella (born 1997)Italian association football player
- Nicolò Zaniolo (born 1999)Italian association football player
- Nicolò Fagioli (born 2001)Italian association football player
- Nicolò Martinenghi (born 1999)Italian swimmer
- Nicolò Rovella (born 2001)Italian footballer
- Nicolò da Ponte (1491–1585)diplomat
- Nicolò Melli (born 1991)Italian basketball player
- Nicolò Sagredo (1606–1676)Doge of Venice
People named Nicolo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nicolo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nicolo is most concentrated in California (4.9×), New York (4.6×), New Jersey (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Nicolo peaked:
Nicolo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy boys | Nicolo | 71,232 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Nicolò | 377 | 313th |
| England and Wales boys | Nicolo | 209 | 1,363rd |
| France boys | Nicolo | 145 | 3,048th |
| Poland boys | Nicolò +2 spellings | 14 birth registrations | 582nd |
| Belgium boys | Nicolò | 11 | 1,246th |
| Scotland boys | Nicolo | 4 | 614th |
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.
Nicolo: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Nicolò | 97 | 0.008% | 422nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Nicolò | 34 | 0.008% | 350th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Nicolò | 246 | 0.377% | 7th |
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, Nicolo is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.38% of children were given it – 238 of them.
Nicolo: rank by region
In 2024, Nicolo was among the 10 most common names in 9 regions of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piemonte | Nicolo' | 9 | 215 |
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Nicolo' | 6 | 3 |
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Nicolo | 7 | 2 |
| Lombardia | Nicolo' | 9 | 520 |
| Provincia Autonoma di Trento | Nicolo' | 8 | 30 |
| Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Nicolo' | 7 | 56 |
| Liguria | Nicolo' | 9 | 65 |
| Umbria | Nicolo' | 9 | 43 |
| Abruzzo | Nicolo' | 10 | 68 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Nicolo appears in the lists for Nord-ovest (9th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – 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.
Nicolo by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Nicolo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Nicolò +1 spelling | 7 | 14 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Nicolo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 336 men called Nicolo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Nicolo | 44 | 0.083 | 1,050 |
| Palmas, Las | Nicolo | 47 | 0.081 | 1,067 |
| Balears, Illes | Nicolo | 27 | 0.043 | 1,327 |
| Barcelona | Nicolo | 78 | 0.027 | 1,856 |
| Málaga | Nicolo | 24 | 0.027 | 1,708 |
| Valencia/València | Nicolo | 27 | 0.020 | 2,345 |
Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 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
Nicolo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.