Niko
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #325 for boys in 2025, 1,046 births
Given to boys 96.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 1,192 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 14,629since 1962
Niko over time
Rank among boys' names. Niko has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 | #325 | 1,046 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #344 | 1,004 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #320 | 1,037 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #287 | 1,192 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #290 | 1,173 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #358 | 870 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #415 | 743 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #517 | 549 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #549 | 507 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #612 | 439 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #629 | 425 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #618 | 432 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #586 | 433 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | #683 | 346 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #747 | 303 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #788 | 278 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #812 | 273 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #829 | 264 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #912 | 217 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #976 | 190 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #1,035 | 162 |
| 2004 | — | #957 | 175 | |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #926 | 177 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #994 | 158 |
| 2001 | — | #936 | 166 | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #1,038 | 140 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #1,086 | 123 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #948 | 148 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #922 | 147 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #902 | 146 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #833 | 166 |
| 1994 | — | #858 | 156 | |
| 1993 | — | #901 | 142 | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #890 | 141 |
| 1991 | — | #787 | 170 | |
| 1990 | — | #776 | 171 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #846 | 141 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #1,164 | 75 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,401 | 13 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,613 | 18 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,341 | 21 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | — | #3,030 | 14 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #3,313 | 20 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 | #2,405 | 16 |
| 1972 | #2,903 | 23 | #2,659 | 13 |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #3,712 | 16 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | #3,673 | 6 |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Niko! It came in at #4,033, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1967, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Niko is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#498 · 1 in 5,015
- New Jersey#515 · 1 in 4,395
- Indiana#595 · 1 in 5,488
- California#612 · 1 in 6,437
- Pennsylvania#634 · 1 in 6,421
Best ever in a state: #110 in Alaska, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #498 | 7 | 1 in 5,015 |
| New Jersey | #515 | 11 | 1 in 4,395 |
| Indiana | #595 | 7 | 1 in 5,488 |
| California | #612 | 39 | 1 in 6,437 |
| Pennsylvania | #634 | 10 | 1 in 6,421 |
| Washington | #723 | 5 | 1 in 6,761 |
| New York | #883 | 12 | 1 in 9,305 |
| Michigan | #892 | 6 | 1 in 9,448 |
| Illinois | #921 | 8 | 1 in 9,903 |
| Ohio | #1,020 | 5 | 1 in 13,425 |
| Florida | #1,140 | 7 | 1 in 13,351 |
| Texas | #1,330 | 9 | 1 in 19,632 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Niko
- 19 spots since 2024 (#344 → #325)
- 33 spots since 2020 (#358 → #325)
- 304 spots since 2015 (#629 → #325)
- Biggest jump: 318 spots in 1989 (#1,164 → #846)
- Biggest drop: 138 spots in 1999 (#948 → #1,086)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2022 at #287 (1,192 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 34 yrs · run 2006–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,465 boys born in 2022 were named Niko (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,633 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 43.2% of all boys named Niko (6,322) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 21 | #3,673 (1968) | #4,015 |
| 1970s | 86 | #2,405 (1973) | #3,719 |
| 1980s | 313 | #846 (1989) | #3,321 |
| 1990s | 1,510 | #776 (1990) | #890 |
| 2000s | 1,922 | #812 (2009) | #942 |
| 2010s | 4,455 | #415 (2019) | #614 |
| 2020s | 6,322 | #287 (2022) | #321 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Niko in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 203,016 of them was named Niko, which outranked 43.5% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,671Zuha10
- #9,671Zyah10
- #9,671Zyniah10
- #10,425Niko9
- #10,425Aaleah9
- #10,425Aaminah9
- #10,425Aamirah9
- #11,325Aaleigha8
- #11,325Aaliayh8
- #11,325Aamina8
Tied with 899 names at #10,425; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 11,160 of them was named Niko, which outranked 92.7% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).