Nico
From the Greek for "victory of the people". In Poland it stays outside the top thousand names, a choice most people have never come across, though a small, growing run of newborn boys shows it climbing.
Nico Pronunciation
Nico is pronounced NYEE-tso (/ˈɲit͡sɔ/).
What Nico means
Where Nico comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nico comes from Greek. It began as a clipped form of Nikolaos, built from nikē, meaning victory, and laos, the common people. Put together they read as victory of the people, and that reading has followed the name across borders. Nico stands on its own now, without the longer Nikolaos beside it.
The first half, nikē, is the same word that gave Greek its goddess of victory and later stamped itself on names such as Nikodem. The second half, laos, means the people of a city. A child called Nico holds both halves in three light syllables.
On a Polish class register, Nico sits short and quick between longer entries. The name is small. What it means is not: victory of the people, zwycięstwo ludu.
How many people are named Nico
1 in 36180 men in Poland is named Nico. 599 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1217 among male names.
Nico's popularity over time
19 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #525 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2019.
Where parents choose Nico
Nico is most popular in Lubusz, 683% above the national average (9 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+88%) and Greater Poland (+81%). It is least common in Masovian and Lesser Poland, 63% and 62% below average respectively.
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Lubusz
+683%1 in 5,517 babies
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Opole
+88%1 in 23,048 babies
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Greater Poland
+81%1 in 23,916 babies
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Masovian
−63%1 in 118,088 babies
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Lesser Poland
−62%1 in 113,458 babies
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Subcarpathian
−28%1 in 60,283 babies
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Lubusz+683% 9 born1 in 5,517 babies+683%
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Opole+88% 2 born1 in 23,048 babies+88%
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Greater Poland+81% 9 born1 in 23,916 babies+81%
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Lower Silesian+65% 6 born1 in 26,189 babies+65%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+58% 4 born1 in 27,345 babies+58%
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Silesian+52% 8 born1 in 28,448 babies+52%
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West Pomeranian+2% 2 born1 in 42,213 babies+2%
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Pomeranian−12% 3 born1 in 49,107 babies−12%
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Subcarpathian−28% 2 born1 in 60,283 babies−28%
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Lesser Poland−62% 2 born1 in 113,458 babies−62%
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Masovian−63% 3 born1 in 118,088 babies−63%
Nico as a middle name
Nico is a first name for 599 men in Poland and a middle name for another 75, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 828th, between Hernán (75) and Owen (75).
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#826 Fredrik75
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#827 Hernán75
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#828 Nico75
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#829 Owen75
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#830 Pieter75