Nico
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #174 for boys in 2025, 2,066 births
Given to boys 95.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 2,066 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 21,294since 1960
Nico over time
Rank among boys' names. Nico has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,546 | 30 | #174 | 2,066 |
| 2024 | #4,114 | 35 | #211 | 1,686 |
| 2023 | #4,191 | 34 | #240 | 1,468 |
| 2022 | #4,378 | 32 | #237 | 1,474 |
| 2021 | #4,090 | 35 | #259 | 1,359 |
| 2020 | #3,915 | 36 | #318 | 1,045 |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | #355 | 929 |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 | #382 | 844 |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 | #412 | 755 |
| 2016 | #4,531 | 31 | #496 | 611 |
| 2015 | #3,989 | 37 | #464 | 652 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 | #454 | 651 |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 | #487 | 567 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #523 | 501 |
| 2011 | #4,072 | 36 | #494 | 530 |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 | #593 | 422 |
| 2009 | #3,561 | 45 | #583 | 452 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #662 | 366 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 | #683 | 348 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | #665 | 342 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | #739 | 273 |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 | #694 | 282 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #752 | 238 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #714 | 248 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #840 | 193 |
| 2000 | — | #842 | 190 | |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #780 | 202 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 | #888 | 164 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | #878 | 158 |
| 1996 | — | #871 | 158 | |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #772 | 193 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #737 | 203 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #696 | 221 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #611 | 283 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #634 | 259 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #618 | 266 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #545 | 315 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #987 | 96 |
| 1987 | — | #4,239 | 10 | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | — | #3,805 | 11 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,613 | 18 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #2,787 | 16 |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | — | #3,569 | 11 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,070 | 13 | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #2,361 | 19 |
| 1976 | #5,215 | 11 | #2,417 | 18 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 | #2,716 | 13 |
| 1972 | #3,894 | 15 | #2,534 | 14 |
| 1971 | #3,062 | 22 | #2,464 | 15 |
| 1970 | #3,311 | 19 | #2,739 | 12 |
| 1969 | #3,199 | 18 | #2,682 | 11 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #2,735 | 10 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
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| 1963 | — | #2,414 | 12 | |
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| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Nico! It came in at #3,665, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1962, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Nico is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#256 · 1 in 1,439
- Massachusetts#261 · 1 in 1,479
- Pennsylvania#262 · 1 in 1,553
- Connecticut#298 · 1 in 1,699
- New Mexico#315 · 1 in 1,514
Best ever in a state: #49 in District of Columbia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #256 | 31 | 1 in 1,439 |
| Massachusetts | #261 | 21 | 1 in 1,479 |
| Pennsylvania | #262 | 40 | 1 in 1,553 |
| Connecticut | #298 | 9 | 1 in 1,699 |
| New Mexico | #315 | 7 | 1 in 1,514 |
| New York | #372 | 45 | 1 in 2,394 |
| California | #376 | 94 | 1 in 2,576 |
| Oregon | #434 | 8 | 1 in 2,415 |
| Colorado | #483 | 10 | 1 in 2,875 |
| Minnesota | #489 | 9 | 1 in 3,245 |
| Maryland | #492 | 9 | 1 in 3,195 |
| Illinois | #495 | 22 | 1 in 3,298 |
| Wisconsin | #563 | 7 | 1 in 4,100 |
| Florida | #607 | 22 | 1 in 4,332 |
| Ohio | #623 | 13 | 1 in 4,819 |
| Arizona | #648 | 8 | 1 in 4,992 |
| Washington | #661 | 8 | 1 in 4,620 |
| Utah | #670 | 5 | 1 in 4,597 |
| Indiana | #769 | 6 | 1 in 6,231 |
| Michigan | #829 | 7 | 1 in 7,051 |
| Virginia | #969 | 5 | 1 in 8,432 |
| North Carolina | #1,115 | 5 | 1 in 10,767 |
| Texas | #1,180 | 14 | 1 in 13,319 |
| Georgia | #1,252 | 5 | 1 in 11,804 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Nico
- 37 spots since 2024 (#211 → #174)
- 144 spots since 2020 (#318 → #174)
- 290 spots since 2015 (#464 → #174)
- Biggest jump: 3,252 spots in 1988 (#4,239 → #987)
- Biggest drop: 99 spots in 1996 (#772 → #871)
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 2025 at #174 (2,066 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1988–2025
- Highest: 1 in 827 boys born in 2025 were named Nico (0.12%)
- 42.7% of all boys named Nico (9,098) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 52 | #2,414 (1963) | #3,044 |
| 1970s | 134 | #2,361 (1977) | #2,886 |
| 1980s | 509 | #545 (1989) | #3,001 |
| 1990s | 2,107 | #611 (1992) | #749 |
| 2000s | 2,932 | #583 (2009) | #717 |
| 2010s | 6,462 | #355 (2019) | #466 |
| 2020s | 9,098 | #174 (2025) | #240 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nico in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 40,825 of them was named Nico, which outranked 82.4% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,512Tasneem46
- #3,512Zayra46
- #3,512Zyon46
- #3,561Nico45
- #3,561Aalyiah45
- #3,561Aili45
- #3,561Alya45
- #3,619Aiva44
- #3,619Alaia44
- #3,619Alajah44
Tied with 57 names at #3,561; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 4,388 of them was named Nico, which outranked 96.0% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.