Nieko
#8,708 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nieko has been given to 325 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #8,708 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Nieko, 2025
1 in 368,000
Nieko over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nieko?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,708
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nieko sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nieko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Niekos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nieko was born before 2011 — so the typical Nieko is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 26.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 325
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (85).
Is Nieko 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
- −2,887
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,820
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,498
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.64×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2022 (18)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.8% average annual change
Spellings of Nieko
Nieko is not the most common spelling — Diego is, with 52.2% against Nieko's 0.13%.
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.
Nieko around the world
Where Nieko 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 & Wales2021–2021#4,789in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nieko by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nieko
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nieko
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.