Niko

Niko

1. A diminutive of the male given names Nikola, Nikolas, or Nikolaos, from Greek.
   • 2025 December 5, “Why the Battle for Warner Bros. Discovery May Not Be Over Yet”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2025:

     Leveraged E.T.F.s use tools like swaps, futures and other derivatives to amplify bets on an asset. But the aggressive use of leverage by the funds named in the letter has raised red flags, Niko Gallogly writes.

Niko m (definite Nikoja)

1. a male given name

Diminutive of Nikolaus and of its variants and, rarely, of Nikodemus, with formal given name status since the 1950s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈniko/, [ˈniko̞]
• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification^(key): Ni‧ko
• Hyphenation^(key): Ni‧ko

Niko

1. a male given name
   • 1864, Aleksis Kivi, Nummisuutarit, SKS, published 1956, act V:

     Merimies Niko, karkuri, mutta ei varas. Ole lohdutettu, tyttäreni!

     Seaman Niko, you may be a deserter, but not a thief. Be in comfort, my daughter!

   • 1989, Tytti Seessalo, Sade, Art House, →ISBN:

     Mutta ei Elise muista nimiä. Niiden nimet ovat niin samantapaisia: alussa oli suo, kuokka ja Jussi -tyyppisiä tai sitten näitä uusia Nikoja, Jerryjä ja Tomeja. Yhtä tyhmiä, välillä kivoja kaikki.

     But Elise cannot remember names. Their names are so similar: in the beginning, there was a swamp, a mattock — and Jussi -type or the new Nikos, Jerrys and Toms. They're all equally stupid but occasionally nice.

   • 2007, Heli Kruger, Pidä minusta kiinni, Otava, →ISBN, pages 197–198:

     Hän esittelee uuden miesystävänsä Nikon, kertaa Ilkalle muutamalla lauseella miehen firman maahantuontiartikkelit ja markkinoiden kirkkaimmat saavutukset.
     —Koolla vai ceellä?
     —Koolla.
     —Ai Nikodeemuksen mukaan, sen raamatun Nikodeemuksen?
     —Niin tai kreikkalaisen Nike-jumalan, Janika sanoo. —Mä vein tässä nyt voiton.

     She presents her new boyfriend Niko, reminds Ilkka of his company's import articles and the market's brightest achievement with a few sentences.
     —Spelled with a K or a C?
     —K.
     —Oh, after Nicodemus, from the Bible?
     —Or the Greek goddess Nike, Janika says. —I won this time.

• Popular in Finland around 2000.

• Niko is the 32^nd most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 16,930 male individuals (and as a middle name to 1,697 more), and also belongs to 13 female individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• kino, koin, koni, noki, onki

• IPA^(key): [ˈniːko]

• Audio (Austria):

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• Hyphenation: Ni‧ko

Niko

1. a male given name, variant of Nico

Niko

1. a diminutive of the female given names Nikola or Nicole, of rare usage.^[1]

A hypocoristic form of Nìkola.

• IPA^(key): /nǐːko/

Níko m anim (Cyrillic spelling Ни́ко)

1. a male given name

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• “Niko”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2026