# Niko (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/niko/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 15,135 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 14,629 / 506 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 768, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 9,572 |
| 2012 | 14 | 8,516 |
| 2013 | 12 | 9,462 |
| 2014 | 11 | 9,989 |
| 2015 | 11 | 9,968 |
| 2016 | 13 | 8,741 |
| 2017 | 16 | 7,339 |
| 2018 | 7 | 13,435 |
| 2019 | 13 | 8,480 |
| 2020 | 15 | 7,474 |
| 2021 | 19 | 6,346 |
| 2022 | 20 | 6,154 |
| 2023 | 14 | 7,944 |
| 2024 | 17 | 6,857 |
| 2025 | 19 | 6,269 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 303 | 749 |
| 2012 | 346 | 688 |
| 2013 | 433 | 587 |
| 2014 | 432 | 618 |
| 2015 | 425 | 629 |
| 2016 | 439 | 613 |
| 2017 | 507 | 549 |
| 2018 | 549 | 518 |
| 2019 | 743 | 416 |
| 2020 | 870 | 358 |
| 2021 | 1,173 | 290 |
| 2022 | 1,192 | 287 |
| 2023 | 1,037 | 320 |
| 2024 | 1,004 | 344 |
| 2025 | 1,046 | 325 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,251 |
| 2012 | 19 | 1,313 |
| 2013 | 20 | 1,247 |
| 2014 | 31 | 935 |
| 2015 | 24 | 1,121 |
| 2016 | 38 | 833 |
| 2017 | 25 | 1,124 |
| 2018 | 33 | 897 |
| 2019 | 37 | 825 |
| 2020 | 42 | 755 |
| 2021 | 69 | 556 |
| 2022 | 78 | 500 |
| 2023 | 78 | 504 |
| 2024 | 77 | 509 |
| 2025 | 61 | 615 |

## People named Niko

- Niko Kovač, Croatian footballer and manager
- Niko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer
- Niko Pirosmani, Georgian artist (1862-1918)
- Nikolai Marr, Georgian ethnologist and linguist (1864–1934)
- Niko Sigur, Canadian soccer player (born 2003)
- Niko Kapanen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, Georgian mathematician (1891-1976)
- Niko Hämäläinen, Finnish association football player
- Niko Eeckhout, Belgian cyclist
- Niko Mikkola, Finnish ice hockey player (born 1996)
- Niko Peleshi, Albanian politician
- Niko Hurme, Finnish musician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.