Niko

boys’ nameAt its peakCompare

Niko is ranked 343rd among boys in 2024 (1,001 births). Its best rank was 287th, in 2022.

Rank in 2024: #343down 23 from 2023
Births in 2024: 1,0010.06% of boys
Peak year: 20221,191 births
Best rank: #287in 2022
Since 1962: 14,063people given the name

Babies named Niko, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

13,576 boys have been named Niko in the United States since 1962, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 1,191 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2020s alone account for 39%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 487 girls have also been given it, 3.5% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Niko
1960s	21
1970s	87
1980s	313
1990s	1,510
2000s	1,922
2010s	4,453
2020s	5,270

In 2022, its biggest year

Niko was the 287th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Niko

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.