Nyko
#8,060 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nyko has been given to 194 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #8,060 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Nyko, 2025
1 in 332,000
Nyko 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nyko?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,060
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nyko 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nyko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nykos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nyko was born before 2020 — so the typical Nyko is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 51.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 194
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (100).
Is Nyko 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
- −2,678
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,866
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,266
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.25×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 40.0%
- Peak was 2022 (25)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.1% average annual change
Spellings of Nyko
Nyko is not the most common spelling — Nico is, with 31.6% against Nyko's 0.29%.
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.
Nyko around the world
Where Nyko 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.
- Canada2020–2023#2,747in 2023
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Nyko by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nyko
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nyko
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.