Niko
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Niko is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Greece it is the 36th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Croatian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., Kurzform von.
- 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 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 297 ●
- 1 in 299 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
464K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Nico in DE Germany, US United States, NL Netherlands and 19 more, Nikos in GR Greece, CY Cyprus, Nikko in PH Philippines 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●
männl. Vom., Kurzform von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #192 | 139,945 | 126K rec. | — | 1 | Nico | 233 |
| FR France | #955 | 51,682 | 53K rec. | — | 353 | Nico | 243 |
| PH Philippines | #446 | 48,601 | 19K rec. | — | 15K | Nikko | 92 |
| AT Austria | #87 | 37,504 | 4.3K rec. | — | 9.4K | Nico | 104 |
| GR Greece | #36 | 23,105 | 14K rec. | — | 33 | Nikos | 170 |
| IT Italy | #373 | 19,882 | 21K rec. | — | 71 | Nico | 113 |
| FI Finland | #201 | 18,618△ | 6.2K rec. | 1 in 299 | 19K | Niko | 102 |
| US United States | — | 14,031 | 89K rec. | 1 in 24K | 14K | Nico | 297 |
| AR Argentina | — | 13,146 | 8.7K rec. | — | 95 | Nico | 80 |
| ZA South Africa | #295 | 11,129 | 11K rec. | — | — | Nico | 77 |
| BE Belgium | #184 | 8,628 | 8.2K rec. | — | 11 | Nico | 103 |
| MX Mexico | — | 7,953 | 8.4K rec. | — | — | Nico | 86 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish83K34%
- Croatian42K17%
- English24K10%
- German22K9%
- Spanish13K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 82,543 | 34% |
| Croatian | 42,125 | 17% |
| English | 23,651 | 10% |
| German | 21,513 | 9% |
| Spanish | 12,931 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Niko is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, first-person singular positive degree present of -wako (“I am (around there)”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Māori, to coil, to form bights in ropes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of にこ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Cilvēka vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Nekā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1968 | 10 |
| 1969 | 14 |
| 1970 | 16 |
| 1971 | 16 |
| 1972 | 23 |
| 1973 | 18 |
| 1974 | 20 |
| 1975 | 12 |
| 1976 | 8 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 14 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 21 |
| 1984 | 18 |
| 1985 | 13 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1987 | 11 |
| 1988 | 75 |
| 1989 | 141 |
| 1990 | 171 |
| 1991 | 170 |
| 1992 | 141 |
| 1993 | 142 |
| 1994 | 156 |
| 1995 | 166 |
| 1996 | 146 |
| 1997 | 147 |
| 1998 | 148 |
| 1999 | 123 |
| 2000 | 140 |
| 2001 | 166 |
| 2002 | 158 |
| 2003 | 177 |
| 2004 | 175 |
| 2005 | 162 |
| 2006 | 190 |
| 2007 | 217 |
| 2008 | 264 |
| 2009 | 273 |
| 2010 | 278 |
| 2011 | 303 |
| 2012 | 346 |
| 2013 | 433 |
| 2014 | 432 |
| 2015 | 425 |
| 2016 | 439 |
| 2017 | 507 |
| 2018 | 549 |
| 2019 | 743 |
| 2020 | 870 |
| 2021 | 1,173 |
| 2022 | 1,192 |
| 2023 | 1,037 |
| 2024 | 1,004 |
| 2025 | 1,046 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 60 years between 1962–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Niko Pirosmanib. 1862GEGeorgian artist (1862-1918)
- Nico Bloembergenb. 1920NLnot in their usual nameDutch-born American physicist
- Nico Lathourisb. 1944AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actor
- Niko Kovačb. 1971HRCroatian footballer and manager
- Nico Muhlyb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican contemporary classical composer
- Niko Kranjčarb. 1984HRCroatian footballer
- Nico Rosbergb. 1985DEnot in their usual nameGerman–Finnish former Formula 1 racing driver
- Nico Hülkenbergb. 1987DEnot in their usual nameFormula One racing driver
- Nicolás Gonzálezb. 1998ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player (born 1998)
- Nico Schlotterbeckb. 1999DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player
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 80 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 19K | #231 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 19K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8.9K | #2,569 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 7.1K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 5.2K | #204 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.8K | #270 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.8K | #131 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 1.6K | #291 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 894 | #3,083 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 808 | #175 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 654 | #1,729 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 556 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Niko?
- We estimate roughly 48 thousand people bear Niko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Niko have the most bearers?
- Niko is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled nico.
- Where is Niko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Niko is densest in Finland — about 1 in 299 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Niko compared with other names?
- In Germany, Niko is the 192nd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Niko a male or female name?
- Niko 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 Niko mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., Kurzform von
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Niko” — the 192nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.