Nikko

Where Nikko comes from

Nikko hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1972
    First appearance
    #4,986 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    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. 1989
    Nikko Landeros born
    American ice sledge hockey player
  4. 1991
    Peak, #862
    148 babies named Nikko — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1997
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,468.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Nikko Landeros · American ice sledge hockey player, born 1989

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.