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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 44,268 of them was named Nico, which outranked 79.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,769Zenaida40
- #3,769Ziah40
- #3,769Zo40
- #3,848Nico39
- #3,848Aerith39
- #3,848Alaynna39
- #3,848Alesia39
- #3,919Addley38
- #3,919Aiyla38
- #3,919Aliannah38
Tied with 70 names at #3,848; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 2,452 of them was named Nico, which outranked 97.1% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.