A short form of Nicolas, Nico also means ‘victory of the people’. The meaning comes from the Greek name Nikolaos, which is composed of ‘nike’ meaning ‘victory’ and ‘laos’ meaning ‘people’.
Nico is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Nico isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Nico ranks 363. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 5 were named Nico. In the entire USA, approximately 14,381 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Nico. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Nico is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Nico cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #228 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Nico, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Nico seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nico was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.0% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an N. This means that N as the first letter for boys' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Nico is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.0% of all boys’ names start with an N, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with N that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Nicholas.
If your name is Nico and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Nico, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Cat
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nico
Nico
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Nico sounds like this:
