Niko

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Niko: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Niko: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #96, and it stood at #577 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
42times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#96highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2006–2020

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2006	#5061
2015	#5730
2018	#4684
2020	#5493

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #432 among boys in Scotland, #472 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #509 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2020 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2022–2023
Highest recorded position: #96 among boys in New Zealand, in 2023 (recorded 2022–2023).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #577 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Niko appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 694 births with the name.

Niko across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Niko's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#500 (2022)	#509 (2024)	28 of 29	694 (1996–2024)	78 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#5061 (2006)	#4684 (2018)	#5493 (2020)	4 of 15	13 (2006–2020)	4 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#520 (2018)	#472 (2024)	#577 (2025)	6 of 8	34 (2018–2025)	7 (2024)
New Zealand · Boys	#99 (2022)	#96 (2023)	#96 (2023)	2 of 2	95 (2022–2023)	49 (2022)

Niko by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Niko in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	18	3 of 10	6
2000s	70	10 of 10	7
2010s	262	10 of 10	26
2020sbusiest	344	5 of 10	69

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 69 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 27, from 42 to 69.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Niko appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #96 in New Zealand in 2023.

Niko's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#509	77	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#504	78	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#500	78	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#556	69	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#755	42	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#825	37	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#897	33	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1124	25	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#833	38	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1121	24	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#935	31	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1247	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1313	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1251	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1551	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1749	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1716	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2023	New Zealand	male	#96	46	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#99	49	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#577	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#516	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#556	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#432	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #96, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years, 2 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 78 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Niklas · #86, 57y
Niklaus · #1860, 11y
Nikodem · #179, 22y
Nikol · #635, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cohen · #96, 30y
Payton · #96, 29y
Skylar · #96, 28y
Maverick · #97, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Autumn · #96, 30y
Cohen · #96, 30y
Embla · #96, 33y
Keanu · #96, 30y

Niko was ranked #96 in New Zealand · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Niko and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Niko without appearing here.

Niko moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2870 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1749 and #4527.
Tor Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2741 and #2435 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1706 and #4432.
Espen Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3225 and #3225 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1716 and #3849.
Leif Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1749 and #1568 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #1251 and #3300.

Moved ahead of Niko

Hunter Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1642 and #1821 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2142 and #1425.
Cooper Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1761 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1642 and #1110.
Hudson Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1642 and #2419 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2142 and #1889.
Finlay Compare
In 2024 they stood at #472 and #520 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #577 and #372.

Moved the opposite way to Niko

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Niko went from #2020 to #509 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Niko went from #2020 to #509 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Niko went from #2020 to #509 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Niko went from #2020 to #509 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Niko

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Niko went from #2020 to #509 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Niko went from #2020 to #509 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Niko went from #2020 to #509 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Niko went from #2020 to #509 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #96 in New Zealand in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Niko

Niko at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Niko across 4 official records

Niko by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Niko appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Niko at a glance

Niko across 4 official records

Niko by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Niko appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Niko

Niko and the names beside it

Niko moved ahead of

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