Niço
surname · Latin script
Niço is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Nickname for Nikolaus, with formal given name status since the 20th century.
- FIFinland1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 11K
- ESSpain1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
15,028 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nico in US United States, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Nickname for Nikolaus, with formal given name status since the 20th century.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Niço counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
15,028 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Niço mean, and where does it come from?
- Nickname for Nikolaus, with formal given name status since the 20th century. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Niço have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Niço, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nico.
- Where is Niço most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Niço is densest in Finland — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Niço?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,028 people named Niço in 2020, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ni%C3%A7oThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Niço”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.