Nico
Meaning of Nico
Pronounced NEE-koh, Nico drifts between continents like a paper lantern surrendered to a sea breeze—birthed from the Greek Nikolaos, “victory of the people,” burnished by Italian vowels until it slips from the tongue in two crisp beats, and, by happy coincidence, echoing the Japanese niko-to, the onomatopoeic whisper of a smile. He is the boy whose name arrives pre-assembled—no stealth consonants, no diacritical theatre—an efficiency that, in the baby-naming world, almost counts as satire. Yet those four letters weave a cool mosaic: marble colonnades, Velvet Underground vinyl humming in a smoke-blue club, Formula One straights glinting like a katana edge, and a Tokyo backstreet where rain tattoos kanji on the pavement. In the United States he has climbed the charts with the calm persistence of bamboo after spring rain, rising from the mist-veiled six-hundreds of the 1970s to a present roost in the low two-hundreds, proof that steady can outlast splashy. Choose Nico and you gift a child a pocket-sized epic—part haiku, part victory march, a name as sleek as midnight ink and as quietly assured as the smile you can almost hear.
Pronunciation
American English,Italian
- Pronunced as NEE-koh (/ˈni.koʊ/)
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Notable People Named Nico
| Nico Rosberg is a German and Finnish former F1 driver and entrepreneur who raced from 2006 to 2016, won the 2016 title with Mercedes, and took 23 Grand Prix wins. |
| Nico Hülkenberg - Nicolas Hulkenberg is a German Formula One driver for Sauber who also won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2015 with Porsche. |
| Nico Hischier is a Swiss ice hockey center who became the first Swiss player drafted first overall and now captains the New Jersey Devils. |
| Niccolo Nico Mannion is an Italian American point guard for Olimpia Milano and former Arizona Wildcats guard, a five star recruit who represents Italy internationally. |
| Nico Santos is a German singer songwriter whose 2017 single Rooftop became a major hit across Central Europe, followed by his 2018 debut album Streets of Gold. |
| Nico Tortorella is an American actor and model known for Scream 4, The Following, Younger, and The Walking Dead World Beyond. |
| Nico Walker - American author and US Army veteran Nicholas Walker served prison time for bank robbery and wrote the semi autobiographical debut novel Cherry, published by Alfred A Knopf in 2018. |
| Nico Marquardt is a German politician and consultant who became internationally known at 13 for research on the near Earth asteroid Apophis. |
| Nico Schulz is a German left back for TFF 2 Lig club Ankaragucu. |
| Indonesian actor turned director Nico Pelamonia, who debuted in 1963 with Fred Youngs Dibalik Awan, worked on 33 films and won the 1976 Citra Award for Best Director for Semalam di Malaysia. |
| Nico González - Nicolas Gonzalez Iglesias, known as Nico, is a Spanish defensive midfielder for Manchester City in the Premier League. |
| Nico Martinez is a litigator at the law firm Bartlit Beck LLP. |
| Nico Hiraga - Nicholas Hiraga is an American actor and skateboarder known for Moxie and Booksmart, with roles in Skate Kitchen, North Hollywood, Ballers, The Power, and Hello Goodbye and Everything In Between. |
| Nico de Jager is a South African Democratic Alliance politician serving in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, formerly a Johannesburg Mayoral Committee member for environmental and infrastructure services and a city councillor from 2005 to 2021. |
| Hosea Nico Kaiyamo was a Namibian politician, author, and businessman who was a SWAPO activist, the first regional councillor for Tsumeb, and a National Council member from 1993 to 2003. |
