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Nicolo

#2,745 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Nicolo has been given to 1,571 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #2,745 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Nicolo, 2025

1 in 70,500

Nicolo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nicolo: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nicolo means

Nicolo is a given name.

The naming story behind Nicolo

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Nicolo in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 90.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Ital. Gr. victory of the people”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Nicolo, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,571 boys were recorded with the name Nicolo between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,338 in 1921.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,742 in 2020 to #2,745 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,411 in 2015 to #2,745 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.

How common is Nicolo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 36,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,745
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nicolo 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 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nicolo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nicolos were born

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

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,457
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Choose a decade

2000s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (355).

Is Nicolo 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
+37
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+666
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.42×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (47)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,338
1921

Spellings of Nicolo

Nicolo is not the most common spelling — Nicolas is, with 73.0% against Nicolo's 1.1%.

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.

Where Nicolo is used

Across 1910–2025, Nicolo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 166,597 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Nicolo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nicolo around the world

Where Nicolo 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2023–2023
    #614
    in 2023
  • France
    1957–2025
    #4,693
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–2001
    #399
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nicolo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,745
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3
Best rank ever
#2,338
1921
Peak year
2024
47 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,571
Count in 2025
47

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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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