Niccolo
Niccolo was given to 40 boys in 2025, #3,069 among boys’ names; 1,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Niccolo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Niccolo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Niccolo?
#3,069 among boys’ names, 2025
Niccolo fell from #3,065 in 2015 to #3,069 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 19.8 to 23.4 per million.
51 babies in 2021, the peak
Niccolo peaked in 2021, when 51 boys were given it, #2,574 among boys’ names. The 40 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,069 | 23.4 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,860 | 26.1 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,987 | 24.6 |
| 2022 | 47 | #2,781 | 26.9 |
| 2021 | 51 | #2,574 | 29.2 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,703 | 16.8 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,431 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,048 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,059 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,746 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,065 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,140 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 44 | #2,695 | 23.3 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,940 | 21.1 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,347 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 44 | #2,770 | 22.9 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,696 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,492 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,864 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,499 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,361 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,601 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,926 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,525 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,378 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,505 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,550 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,356 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,175 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,631 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,775 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,912 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,594 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,039 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,570 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,411 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,560 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,243 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,479 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,440 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Niccolo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Niccolo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Niccolo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Niccolo, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,060 Americans ever recorded as Niccolo. The median Niccolo alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 871 people named Niccolo (2 women and girls, 869 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 802 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 152 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 425 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 466 |
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 Niccolo born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 10 | #1,187 | 1.0× |
| California | 5 | #2,695 | 1.4× |
Where Niccolo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Niccolo is most over-represented in California: since 1984 it was given 1.4 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 Niccolo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,393 babies since 1880, Niccolo is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 87 babies (46%), again the second most given.
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 Niccolo
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 Niccolo and names like it
- Compare Niccolo and NicoloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNiccolo peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Niccolo since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Niccolo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Niccolo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.