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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/).

Alive in 2025
599
Newborns 2025
19
National rank
#1217

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.

People with the name Nico 2019 → 2025
599 +231 since 2019
2020 387 +19
2021 420 +33
2022 457 +37
2023 503 +46
2024 552 +49
2025 599 +47

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.

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19 newborns with the name Nico in 2025
national rank #525 that year

Where Nico is most popular

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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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).

As a first name
599
As a middle name
75
first name 89% middle name 11%
Middle-name ranking men

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