Nicolo
Nicolo was given to 47 boys in 2025, #2,745 among boys’ names; 1,571 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Nicolo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nicolo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nicolo?
#2,745 among boys’ names, 2025
Nicolo rose from #3,411 in 2015 to #2,745 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 17.2 to 27.5 per million.
47 babies in 2024, the peak
Nicolo peaked in 2024, when 47 boys were given it, #2,782 among boys’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #2,745 | 27.5 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,782 | 27.3 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,098 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,852 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,061 | 22.9 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,742 | 26.1 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,237 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,958 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,061 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,747 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #3,411 | 17.2 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,351 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,106 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,345 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,220 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,947 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,203 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,323 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,854 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,501 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,881 | 18.5 |
| 2004 | 40 | #2,671 | 20.2 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,337 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 37 | #2,621 | 19.1 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,843 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,506 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,553 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,539 | 17.8 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,953 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,172 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,535 | 15.8 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,542 | 15.5 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,997 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,716 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,516 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,593 | 12.7 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,052 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,566 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,705 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,191 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,249 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,845 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,367 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,141 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,317 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,044 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,746 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,338 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,460 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,915 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,188 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,954 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,859 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,921 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,111 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,806 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,030 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,161 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,814 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,460 | 3.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,444 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,908 | 2.9 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,555 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,848 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,309 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,198 | 2.5 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,011 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,062 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,612 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,873 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,184 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,108 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,169 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,338 | 12.7 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,767 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,300 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,031 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,848 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,405 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,288 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,605 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nicolo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nicolo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nicolo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nicolo, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,571 Americans ever recorded as Nicolo. The median Nicolo alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,507 people named Nicolo (16 women and girls, 1,491 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 25 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 113 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 264 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 526 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 481 |
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 Nicolo born?
The states with the most babies named Nicolo are New York, California and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,374 | 1.4× |
| California | 7 | #2,142 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,000 | 0.6× |
Where Nicolo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nicolo is most over-represented in New York: since 1914 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 Nicolo 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,197 babies since 1880, Nicolo is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 253 babies (19%), again the third 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 Nicolo
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 Nicolo and names like it
- Compare Nicolo and NikolaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNicolo peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nicolo since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Nicolo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nicolo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.