Niko
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #325 for boys in 2025, 1,046 births
Given to boys 96.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 1,192 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 14,629since 1962
Niko over time
Rank among boys' names. Niko has never cracked the top 200 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 | #6,116 | 19 | #325 | 1,046 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #344 | 1,004 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #320 | 1,037 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #287 | 1,192 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #290 | 1,173 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #358 | 870 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #415 | 743 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #517 | 549 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #549 | 507 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #612 | 439 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #629 | 425 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #618 | 432 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #586 | 433 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | #683 | 346 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #747 | 303 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #788 | 278 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #812 | 273 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #829 | 264 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #912 | 217 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #976 | 190 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #1,035 | 162 |
| 2004 | — | #957 | 175 | |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #926 | 177 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #994 | 158 |
| 2001 | — | #936 | 166 | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #1,038 | 140 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #1,086 | 123 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #948 | 148 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #922 | 147 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #902 | 146 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #833 | 166 |
| 1994 | — | #858 | 156 | |
| 1993 | — | #901 | 142 | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #890 | 141 |
| 1991 | — | #787 | 170 | |
| 1990 | — | #776 | 171 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #846 | 141 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #1,164 | 75 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,401 | 13 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,613 | 18 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,341 | 21 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | — | #3,030 | 14 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #3,313 | 20 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 | #2,405 | 16 |
| 1972 | #2,903 | 23 | #2,659 | 13 |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #3,712 | 16 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | #3,673 | 6 |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Niko! It came in at #4,033, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1967, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Niko is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#233 · 1 in 964
- Hawaii#243 · 1 in 691
- West Virginia#254 · 1 in 870
- California#258 · 1 in 1,178
- New Mexico#261 · 1 in 910
Best ever in a state: #110 in Alaska, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #233 | 26 | 1 in 964 |
| Hawaii | #243 | 5 | 1 in 691 |
| West Virginia | #254 | 8 | 1 in 870 |
| California | #258 | 161 | 1 in 1,178 |
| New Mexico | #261 | 8 | 1 in 910 |
| Connecticut | #273 | 11 | 1 in 1,192 |
| Pennsylvania | #300 | 39 | 1 in 1,384 |
| New Jersey | #310 | 27 | 1 in 1,456 |
| Wisconsin | #320 | 17 | 1 in 1,408 |
| Arizona | #321 | 24 | 1 in 1,332 |
| Colorado | #322 | 19 | 1 in 1,321 |
| Florida | #322 | 56 | 1 in 1,611 |
| Illinois | #328 | 36 | 1 in 1,518 |
| Massachusetts | #331 | 15 | 1 in 1,790 |
| Virginia | #332 | 25 | 1 in 1,547 |
| Indiana | #338 | 21 | 1 in 1,546 |
| Idaho | #343 | 6 | 1 in 1,290 |
| New York | #345 | 50 | 1 in 1,753 |
| Washington | #396 | 18 | 1 in 1,843 |
| Oregon | #401 | 9 | 1 in 1,720 |
| Missouri | #410 | 14 | 1 in 2,035 |
| North Carolina | #410 | 23 | 1 in 2,128 |
| Michigan | #412 | 21 | 1 in 2,034 |
| Utah | #413 | 11 | 1 in 1,753 |
| Oklahoma | #415 | 10 | 1 in 1,774 |
| South Carolina | #433 | 10 | 1 in 2,001 |
| Ohio | #439 | 24 | 1 in 2,270 |
| Texas | #439 | 72 | 1 in 2,351 |
| Tennessee | #450 | 15 | 1 in 2,272 |
| Georgia | #468 | 21 | 1 in 2,394 |
| Nevada | #494 | 5 | 1 in 2,373 |
| Minnesota | #539 | 9 | 1 in 2,778 |
| Alabama | #542 | 8 | 1 in 2,721 |
| Kentucky | #653 | 5 | 1 in 3,926 |
| Louisiana | #712 | 6 | 1 in 3,595 |
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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 Niko
- 19 spots since 2024 (#344 → #325)
- 33 spots since 2020 (#358 → #325)
- 304 spots since 2015 (#629 → #325)
- Biggest jump: 318 spots in 1989 (#1,164 → #846)
- Biggest drop: 138 spots in 1999 (#948 → #1,086)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2022 at #287 (1,192 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,465 boys born in 2022 were named Niko (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,633 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 43.2% of all boys named Niko (6,322) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 21 | #3,673 (1968) | #4,015 |
| 1970s | 86 | #2,405 (1973) | #3,719 |
| 1980s | 313 | #846 (1989) | #3,321 |
| 1990s | 1,510 | #776 (1990) | #890 |
| 2000s | 1,922 | #812 (2009) | #942 |
| 2010s | 4,455 | #415 (2019) | #614 |
| 2020s | 6,322 | #287 (2022) | #321 |
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.
Niko in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 107,770 of them was named Niko, which outranked 58.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,923Zilah16
- #6,923Zionna16
- #6,923Zyon16
- #7,212Niko15
- #7,212Aafiya15
- #7,212Aalyah15
- #7,212Aanshi15
- #7,559Aarushi14
- #7,559Ace14
- #7,559Adaia14
Tied with 346 names at #7,212; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 1,984 of them was named Niko, which outranked 97.5% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.