Nico

Where Nico comes from

Variant of Nick + -o.
— Wiktionary's entry for Nico
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1960
    First appearance
    #3,665 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1985
    Nico Rosberg born
    German–Finnish former Formula 1 racing driver
  4. 1987
    Nico Hülkenberg born
    Formula One racing driver
  5. 2025
    Peak, #174
    2,066 babies named Nico — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Nichola.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.
Namesakes
  • Nico Rosberg · German–Finnish former Formula 1 racing driver, born 1985
  • Nico Hülkenberg · Formula One racing driver, born 1987
  • Nico Schlotterbeck · German association football player, born 1999
  • Nico Elvedi · Swiss association football player, born 1996
  • Nico O'Reilly · English footballer, born 2005

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.