Nicko - boys' name

What the Data Says About Nicko

The Social Security Administration has registered 291 babies named Nicko between 1981 and 2025, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nicko currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 25 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nicko performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 102 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nicko shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 13 births, the largest state-level total in the dataset, followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Nicko in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nicko in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 291 total represents a lower bound, actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.