Nico (given name)

Nico is a unisex given name. It is a short form of Nicholas, Nicolas, Nicola, Nicole, Dominic and others. In Italian it may also be short for Domenico, Nicolò and for Nicodemo. Notable people with the name include:

• Nico (1938–1988), born Christa Päffgen, singer with The Velvet Underground
• Nico (Romanian singer) (born 1970)
• Nico Aaltonen (born 1988), Finnish ice hockey player
• Nico Abegglen (born 1990), Swiss footballer
• Nico Antonitsch (born 1991), Austrian footballer
• Nico Archambault (born 1984), Canadian dancer and choreographer
• Nico Assumpção (1954–2001), Brazilian bass player
• Nico Baleani (born 1992), Spanish footballer
• Nico Baracchi (1957–2015), Swiss bobsledder
• Nico Berg (born 1973), Canadian soccer player
• Nico Bettge (born 1980), German slalom canoeist
• Nico Beyer (born 1964), German film director and producer
• Nico Binst (born 1992), Belgian footballer
• Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–2017), Dutch and American physicist and Nobel laureate
• Nico Bodonczy (born 1955), Chilean-American soccer player
• Nico Boje (born 1973), South African cricketer
• Nico H.J. van den Boogaard (1938–1982), Dutch medievalist scholar
• Nico Bouvy (1892–1957), Dutch footballer
• Nico Braun (born 1950), Luxembourgian footballer
• Nico de Bree (1944–2016), Dutch football goalkeeper
• Nico van Breemen (born 1942), Dutch soil scientist
• Nico Broekhuysen (1876–1958), Dutch teacher and inventor of korfball
• Nico Brüngger (born 1988), Swiss cyclist
• Nico Burchert (born 1987), German footballer
• Nico Buwalda (1890–1970), Dutch footballer
• Nico Carstens (1926–2016), South African accordionist and songwriter
• Nico Casavecchia (born 1961), Argentine director
• Nico Castel (1931–2015), Multinational operatic tenor
• Nico Claesen (born 1962), Belgian footballer
• Nico Colaluca (born 1986), American soccer player
• Nico Collard (born 1970s), American music director, producer, and guitarist
• Nico Collins (born 1999), American football player
• Nico Covatti (born 1988), Argentine motorcycle speedway rider
• Nico Däbritz (born 1971), German footballer
• Nico de Boinville (born 1989), English jockey
• Nico F. Declercq (born 1975), Belgian physicist and mechanical engineer
• Nico Delle Karth (born 1984), Austrian sailor
• Nico Denz (born 1994), German cyclist
• Nico Dewalque (born 1945), Belgian footballer
• Nico Diederichs (1903–1978), South African State President
• Nico Dijkshoorn (born 1960), Dutch author, columnist, and musician
• Nico Dostal (1895–1981), Austrian operetta and film music composer
• Nico Drost (born 1980), Dutch politician
• Nico Eekman (1889–1973), Belgian figurative painter
• Nico Elorde (born 1991), Filipino basketball player
• Nico Elvedi (born 1996), Swiss footballer
• Nico Emonds (born 1961), Belgian cyclist
• Nico Empen (born 1996), German footballer
• Nico Esterhuyse (born 1984), Namibian rugby player
• Nico Evers-Swindell (born 1979), New Zealand actor
• Nico Falah (born 1995), American football player
• Nico Fidenco (1933–2022), Italian singer
• Nico Freriks (born 1981), Dutch volleyball player
• Nico Frijda (1927–2015), Dutch psychologist
• Nico Frommer (born 1978), German footballer
• Nico Frutos (born 1981), Argentine footballer
• Nico van Gageldonk (1913–1995), Dutch cyclist
• Nico Gaitán (born 1988), Argentine footballer
• Nico Gardener (1906–1989), British bridge player
• Nico González (footballer, born 1988), Spanish footballer
• Nico Gorzel (born 1998), German footballer
• Nico Granatowski (born 1991), German footballer
• Nico Gunzburg (1882–1984), Belgian lawyer and criminologist
• Nico Gutjahr (born 1993), German footballer
• Nico de Haas (1907–1995), Dutch photographer and currency designer
• Nico Habermann (1932–1993), Dutch computer scientist
• Nico Hambro (1861–1926), Norwegian female politician (Nicoline)
• Nico Hammann (born 1988), German footballer
• Nico Hischier (born 1999), Swiss ice hockey player
• Nico Hülkenberg (born 1987), German Formula One driver
• Nico Jalink (born 1964), Dutch football player
• Nico Kasanda (1939–1985), Congo guitarist and composer
• Nico Landeweerd (born 1954), Dutch water polo player
• Nico Mannion (born 2001), Italian-American basketball player
• Nico Mbarga (1950–1997), Nigerian musician
• Nico Mirallegro (born 1991), British actor
• Nico Motchebon (born 1969), German runner
• Nico Muhly (born 1981), American contemporary classical composer
• Nico Naldini (1929–2020), Italian novelist, poet, and film director
• Nico Nyberg (born 1993), Finnish ice hockey player
• Nico Onkenhout (1918–1989), Dutch sculptor
• Nico Pulzetti (born 1984), Italian footballer
• Nico Pepe (1917–1987), Italian film actor
• Nico Perrone (born 1935), Italian journalist
• Nico Rosberg (born 1985), German-Finnish former Formula One driver and 2016 Formula One World Champion
• Nico Schulz (born 1993), German footballer
• Nico Siragusa (born 1994), American football player
• Nico Tortorella (born 1988), American actor
• Nico Vaesen (born 1969), Belgian footballer
• Nico Vascellari (born 1976) Italian artist and musician
• Nico Verhoeven (born 1961), Dutch cyclist

Nicknames

• Klaus Peter Cadsky (1937–2011), Swiss cartoonist
• Antonio Mariño Souto (born 1935), Cuban painter, known as Ñico
• Antônio Azambuja Nunes (born 1941), Brazilian footballer
• Honório de Freitas Guimarães (1902–1968), member of the Brazilian Communist Party

Fictional characters

• Nico Blake, female character from the British soap opera Hollyoaks
• Nico Collard, a main character in the Broken Sword series
• Nico di Angelo, a son of Hades in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan
• Nico von Lahnstein, female character from the German soap opera Verbotene Liebe
• Nico Minoru, a comic character who briefly went by the moniker "Sister Grimm" in Runaways
• Nico Reilly, a lead character in the TV series Lipstick Jungle
• Nico Robin, a manga character from One Piece
• Nico Saiba, a character in the TV series Kamen Rider Ex-Aid
• Nico Slater, a character in the TV series Ugly Betty
• Nico Toscani, character in Above the Law
• Nico Kanna, a character of Puella Magi Kazumi Magica, a spinoff manga of Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
• Nico Yazawa, a character in the mixed media project Love Live! School Idol Project
• Nico, a yellow canary in the film Rio and its sequel Rio 2
• Nico Kim, an attending orthopedic surgeon in Grey's Anatomy
• NiCO, a character in the Dead or Alive video game series

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Nico
• All pages with titles containing Nico
• Nico (disambiguation)
• Niko (disambiguation)
• Niño (name)
• Nino (name)