Nicandro

#10,371 in 2025Boys' name

Victory + man

Nicandro has been given to 182 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #10,371 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Nicandro, 2025

1 in 474,000

Nicandro over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nicandro: meaning, origin, and history

Victory + man

Ancient Greek

What Nicandro means

Nicandro means “victory + man”, associated with νῑ́κη and ᾰ̓νήρ.

Origin, language, and formation

Nicandro is used in Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Nicandro comes through Ancient Greek Νῑ́κᾰνδρος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nicander.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 182 boys were recorded with the name Nicandro between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1994; its best national rank was #4,042 in 1919.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,488 in 2020 to #10,371 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Nicandro?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 244,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #10,371; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Nicandro sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nicandro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nicandros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nicandro was born before 2004 — so the typical Nicandro is around 21 today.

Median birth year: 2004; About 21 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 63.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 176; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Nicandro rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −766; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +3,117; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 50.0%; Peak was 1994 (14)
Years since peak: 31; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,042; 1919

Spellings of Nicandro

Nicandro is not the most common spelling — Lisandro is, with 55.8% against Nicandro's 4.2%.

Lisandro55.8%2,411
Lizandro21.7%937
Nicanor18.2%787
Nicandro4.2%182

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Nicandro is used

Across 1910–2025, Nicandro was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Nicandro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nicandro by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #10,371
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 3,117
Best rank ever: #4,042; 1919
Peak year: 1994; 14 that year
First recorded: 1919
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 182
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Nicandro

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nicandro

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Breonna Salena Breann Cydney Reanna Ciera Kia Jacquelynn

For a brother

Coty Brandan Trever Mitchel Elizabeth Jarod Samual Bradly

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