Niko

Where Niko comes from

The dictionaries list Niko as a given name — a diminutive of the male given names Nikola, Nikolas, and Nikolaos, from Greek — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1962
    First appearance
    #4,033 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1971
    Niko Kovač born
    Croatian footballer and manager
  3. 1977
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1984
    Niko Kranjčar born
    Croatian footballer
  5. 2022
    Peak, #287
    1,192 babies named Niko — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given names Nikola, Nikolas, and Nikolaos, from Greek.
Namesakes
  • Niko Kovač · Croatian footballer and manager, born 1971
  • Niko Kranjčar · Croatian footballer, born 1984
  • Niko Pirosmani · Georgian artist, 1862–1918
  • Niko Sigur · Canadian soccer player, born 2003
  • Niko Kapanen · Finnish ice hockey player, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.