Nicco
Nicco was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,816 among boys’ names; 1,173 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Nicco and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicco by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nicco?
#4,816 among boys’ names, 2025
Nicco fell from #3,844 in 2015 to #4,816 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 12.3 per million.
53 babies in 2022, the peak
Nicco peaked in 2022, when 53 boys were given it, #2,580 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,816 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,042 | 15.7 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,399 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,580 | 30.4 |
| 2021 | 49 | #2,639 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,392 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,086 | 21.7 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,492 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,559 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,496 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,844 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,590 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,653 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 35 | #3,216 | 18.5 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,780 | 22.6 |
| 2010 | 36 | #3,162 | 18.8 |
| 2009 | 43 | #2,828 | 21.7 |
| 2008 | 46 | #2,707 | 22.5 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,425 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,135 | 17.0 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,587 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,369 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,827 | 17.7 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,524 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,377 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,493 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,912 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,801 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,608 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,128 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,326 | 17.9 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,074 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,238 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,580 | 14.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,580 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,241 | 15.6 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,444 | 13.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,471 | 7.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicco a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicco has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 39 years of records.
Girls and boys named Nicco: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicco, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,173 Americans ever recorded as Nicco. The median Nicco alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 983 people named Nicco (43 women and girls, 940 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 950 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 227 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 469 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 452 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nicco born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,694 | 1.3× |
Where Nicco is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nicco is most over-represented in California: since 1970 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nicco with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Nicco?
Nicco is a less common spelling of Nico: SSA has recorded 1,173 Nicco and 22,322 Nico since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 53,398 babies since 1880, Nicco is the fifth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 3,353 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nicco
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nicco and names like it
- Compare Nicco and NicoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNicco peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicco since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Nicco.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nicco alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.