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Nikos

#7,072 in 2025Boys' name

I conquer + people, through Nikolaos

Nikos has been given to 882 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #7,072 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Nikos, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nikos: meaning, origin, and history

I conquer + people, through Nikolaos

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nikos means

Nikos belongs to the name family reached through Nikos → Nikolaos. Its meaning is “I conquer + people”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nikos is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Νίκος and Nikolaos.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 882 boys were recorded with the name Nikos between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,196 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,529 in 2020 to #7,072 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,504 in 2015 to #7,072 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 Nikos?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,072
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nikos 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nikos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nikoss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nikos was born before 2001 — so the typical Nikos is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
882
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Choose a decade

2000s — 22.1% of all recorded uses (195).

Is Nikos 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
−976
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−543
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,568
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2009 (28)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,196
1969

Spellings of Nikos

Nikos is not the most common spelling — Nikolas is, with 25.1% against Nikos's 0.92%.

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 Nikos is used

Across 1910–2025, Nikos was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 713,013 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Nikos has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nikos around the world

Where Nikos 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
    1997–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2021
    #6,312
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Nikos by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,072
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 543
Best rank ever
#2,196
1969
Peak year
2009
28 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
882
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Nikos

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

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Sibling names for Nikos

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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