Nikó

given name · Latin script

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

Nikó is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A hypocoristic form of Nìkola.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 299(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 813
  • SISlovenia1 in 1.2K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

18,635 people

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 299 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Niko in FI Finland, US United States.

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)

A hypocoristic form of Nìkola.

Sources 3

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nikó 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.

Where Nikó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland18,6351 in 29919KNiko9
US United States9,3821 in 35K8.9KNiko12
HR Croatia5,1971 in 8137.1K——
SI Slovenia1,7571 in 1.2K1.8K—1
AL Albania1,5691 in 2K1.6K——
SE Sweden5051 in 20K505——

18,635 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nikó is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Finland, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Niko

3 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nikó under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nikó mean, and where does it come from?
A hypocoristic form of Nìkola. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Is Nikó a male or female name?
Nikó 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.
In which country does Nikó have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Nikó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niko.
Where is Nikó most common?
Nikó is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 299 people carrying it.
How common is the name Nikó?
In Finland, the national register counted 18,635 people named Nikó, about 1 in 299 residents.

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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, “Nikó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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