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Nicodemo

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Nicodemo has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 1994. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Nicodemo, 2021

1 in 565,000

Nicodemo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nicodemo: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nicodemo means

Nicodemo is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nicodemo is used in Italian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Nicodemo is pronounced /ni.koˈdɛ.mo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 24 boys were recorded with the name Nicodemo between 1994 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1998; its best national rank was #8,183 in 1998.

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 Nicodemo?

Nicodemo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nicodemo 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nicodemo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nicodemos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nicodemo was born before 1998 — so the typical Nicodemo is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
54.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
24
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 54.2% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Nicodemo 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (7)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,183
1998

Spellings of Nicodemo

Nicodemo is not the most common spelling — Nicodemus is, with 97.9% against Nicodemo's 2.1%.

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.

Nicodemo around the world

Where Nicodemo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1964–1964
    #1,535
    in 1964
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #2,583
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1959–1967
    #552
    in 1967

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nicodemo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,183
1998
Peak year
1998
7 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
24
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nicodemo

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

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Sibling names for Nicodemo

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

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