Nikko
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A felt-tip pen, of the Nikko brand or of any other brand, or the marks left by such a pen
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈnikoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nikko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Finland it is the 55th most common given name.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 299as Niko
- HRCroatia1 in 813as Niko
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nikko itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 356 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 named Nico, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
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 DE Germany, US United States, IT Italy and 2 more and Niko in FI Finland, HR Croatia, SI Slovenia.
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 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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nikko 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #193 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Nico | 244 |
| IT Italy | #317 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 71 | Nico | 130 |
| ZA South Africa | #341 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Nico | 80 |
| FI Finland | #55 | 18,635as Niko | 1 in 299 | 19K | Niko | 115 |
| US United States | — | 15,028as Nico | 1 in 22K | 14K | Nico | 356 |
| PH Philippines | #480 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 15K | Nikko | 106 |
| BE Belgium | #161 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 11 | Nico | 120 |
| HR Croatia | #182 | 5,197as Niko | 1 in 813 | 7.1K | Niko | 88 |
| SI Slovenia | #159 | 1,757as Niko | 1 in 1.2K | 1.8K | Niko | 36 |
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: the de-munich-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nikko Weidemannb. 1961DEGerman musician and composer (born 1961)
- Nikko Briteramosb. 1983USAmerican basketball player
- Nikko Landerosb. 1989USAmerican ice sledge hockey player
- Lamar Skeeterb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player and coach (born 1989)
- Nikko StrömSESwedish ICT scientist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.1K | #5,175 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 254 | #5,175 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 147 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 55 | #5,018 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 34 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #25,629 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2015 | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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, and where does it come from?
- A felt-tip pen, of the Nikko brand or of any other brand, or the marks left by such a pen. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nikko?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnikoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nikko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Nico in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nikko?
- In Finland, the national register counted 18,635 people named Niko, about 1 in 299 residents.
- How common is Nikko compared with other names?
- In Germany, Nikko is the 193rd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nikko?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nikkoThe 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, “Nikko” — the 193rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.