Nikko

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nikko is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Greece it is the 36th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A felt-tip pen, of the Nikko brand or of any other brand, or the marks left by such a pen.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 299◐
  • ATAustria1 in 441
  • HRCroatia1 in 813

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈48K ●

across 10 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
297 ●

464K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 299 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

NicoLatin · German●170K records
ᲜიკოGeorgian · Georgian●3.7K records
НикоCyrillic · Russian●3K records
ΝίκοςGreek · Greek●3K records
니코Hangul · Korean●2 records
นกโกThai · Thai●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nico in DE Germany, US United States, NL Netherlands and 19 more, Niko in FI Finland, HR Croatia, SI Slovenia, Nikos in GR Greece, CY Cyprus and Ნიკო in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A felt-tip pen, of the Nikko brand or of any other brand, or the marks left by such a pen.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nikko is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#192139,945126K rec.—1Nico233
FR France#95551,68253K rec.—353Nico243
PH Philippines#44648,60119K rec.—15KNikko92
AT Austria#8737,5044.3K rec.—9.4KNico104
GR Greece#3623,10514K rec.—33Nikos170
IT Italy#37319,88221K rec.—71Nico113
FI Finland#20118,618△6.2K rec.1 in 29919KNiko102
US United States—14,03189K rec.1 in 24K14KNico297
AR Argentina—13,1468.7K rec.—95Nico80
ZA South Africa#29511,12911K rec.——Nico77
BE Belgium#1848,6288.2K rec.—11Nico103
MX Mexico—7,9538.4K rec.——Nico86

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English18K42%
  • Spanish13K29%
  • Indonesian2.7K6%
  • Finnish2K5%
  • Hindi1.1K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English18,07542%
Spanish12,59229%
Indonesian2,6866%
Finnish1,9735%
Hindi1,1403%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nikko is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name1.3K records spelled Nikko3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • Bangla given name68 records spelled Nikko3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Philippines

    Also written নিক্কো

  • Russian given name51 records spelled Nikko9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ukraine, Russia, Italy

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Никко, Нікко, Ніко

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Nikko is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In izh, hiccup

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0100200300197019801990200020102020216 · 2021

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Nikko in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1970–2025
Yearrecords
19708
197111
197216
19736
197413
19758
19769
19777
19789
19796
19805
19815
19839
19857
19868
19875
198859
1989123
1990131
1991148
1992141
1993119
1994126
199599
199686
199773
199872
199967
200075
200178
200277
200362
200457
2005121
200676
200785
200892
200999
2010112
2011109
2012131
2013150
2014145
2015154
2016142
2017135
2018164
2019144
2020163
2021216
2022166
2023194
2024154
2025147

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 54 years between 1970–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960197019801990Nikko Weidemann, b. 1961Nikko Briteramos, b. 1983Nikko Landeros, b. 1989Lamar Skeeter, b. 1989

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 30 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Nikko
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking202215K#454
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.1K#5,175
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—381#8,653
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020254#5,175
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—151—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025147—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—62#10,420
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—55#7,544
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—53#26,489
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—52#13,218
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202036—
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—36#16,890

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 199 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nikko?
We estimate roughly 48 thousand people bear Nikko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Nikko have the most bearers?
Nikko is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled nico.
Where is Nikko most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nikko is densest in Finland — about 1 in 299 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is Nikko compared with other names?
In Germany, Nikko is the 192nd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
Is Nikko a male or female name?
Nikko is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Nikko mean?
Recorded meaning: A felt-tip pen, of the Nikko brand or of any other brand, or the marks left by such a pen.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nikko” — the 192nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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