Nikko
Nikko was given to 147 boys in 2025, #1,319 among boys’ names; 4,702 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,610 Americans named Nikko 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 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nikko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nikko?
#1,319 among boys’ names, 2025
Nikko fell from #1,203 in 2015 to #1,319 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 80.3 to 86.1 per million.
216 babies in 2021, the peak
Nikko peaked in 2021, when 216 boys were given it, #1,020 among boys’ names. The 147 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,319 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 154 | #1,282 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 194 | #1,101 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 166 | #1,202 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 216 | #1,020 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 163 | #1,187 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 144 | #1,292 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 164 | #1,173 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 135 | #1,334 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 142 | #1,283 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 154 | #1,203 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 145 | #1,248 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 150 | #1,199 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 131 | #1,312 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,490 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,469 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 99 | #1,613 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 92 | #1,674 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 85 | #1,757 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 76 | #1,818 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 121 | #1,279 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,089 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 62 | #1,896 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 77 | #1,590 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 78 | #1,558 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 75 | #1,577 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 67 | #1,617 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 72 | #1,521 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 73 | #1,473 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 86 | #1,286 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 99 | #1,150 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 126 | #989 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 119 | #1,002 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 141 | #887 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 148 | #862 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 131 | #898 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 123 | #916 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 59 | #1,347 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,192 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,574 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,383 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,976 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,520 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nikko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,702 Americans recorded as Nikko, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 147 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nikko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nikko, and how old are they?
4,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,702 Americans ever recorded as Nikko. The median Nikko alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 3,370 people named Nikko (254 women and girls, 3,116 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,639 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 96 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,060 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,070 |
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 Nikko born?
The states with the most babies named Nikko are California, Texas and Florida, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 27 | #877 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,393 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,585 | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 7 | #735 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 7 | #821 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,199 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 6 | #963 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,057 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,320 | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,004 | 0.4× |
Where Nikko is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nikko is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1970 it was given 1.8 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 Nikko 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 Nikko?
Nikko is a less common spelling of Nico: SSA has recorded 4,702 Nikko and 22,322 Nico since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 53,712 babies since 1880, Nikko is the fourth most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 147 of their 3,353 babies (4.4%), the third 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 Nikko
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 Nikko and names like it
- Compare Nikko and NicoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNikko peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nikko since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Nikko.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nikko alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.