Nico
According to the Society for the German Language and the International Handbook of Given Names, Nico or Niko is a female and male given name .
Origin and meaning
The name is a short form of the male given name Nikolaus , Nikolai or Nikolaos or the female variant Nikola , Nicola or Nicole . The name originally comes from the Greek and means victory (Nike) of the people (Laos). A Romanian short form of the name is Nicu .
name day
Some Christians celebrate the name day on December 6th , after Nikolaus von Myra , or on March 21st , according to Nikolaus von Flüe .
Name bearer
First name
- Nico Bouvy (1892–1957), Dutch football player
- Nico Braun (* 1950), Luxembourg soccer player
- Nico Claesen (* 1962), Belgian football player
- Nico Elvedi (* 1996), Swiss football player
- Nico Frommer (* 1978), German soccer player
- Nico Georgiadis (* 1996), Swiss chess player
- Nico Haak (1939–1990), Dutch pop singer and entertainer
- Nico Hischier (* 1999), Swiss ice hockey player
- Nico Hofmann (* 1959), German film director
- Nico Hülkenberg (* 1987), German racing driver
- Nico Karger (* 1993), German soccer player
- Nico Kemmler (* 1978), German soccer player and coach
- Niko Kijewski (* 1996), German soccer player
- Nico Kuhn (* 1985), German author
- Nico Kunert (* 1983), German art cyclist
- Nico Motchebon (* 1969), German runner
- Nico Müller (singer) (* 1982), German opera singer (baritone)
- Nico Müller (racing driver) (* 1992), Swiss automobile racing driver
- Nico Müller (weightlifter) (* 1993), German weightlifter
- Niko Paech (* 1960), German economist
- Nico Patschinski (* 1976), German soccer player
- Nico Richter (1915–1945), Dutch composer
- Nico Rinderknecht (* 1997), German soccer player
- Nico Rosberg (* 1985), German-Finnish Formula 1 driver
- Nico Semsrott (* 1986), German cabaret artist
- Nico Tortorella (* 1988), American actor
stage name
- Klaus Peter Cadsky (pseudonym Nico , 1937–2011), German-Swiss cartoonist
- Nico (musician) (actually Nicholas Kristian Sykes , * 1966), British music producer
- Nico (singer) (actually Christa Päffgen , 1938–1988), German model and singer
- Nicoleta Matei (stage name Nico , * 1970), Romanian singer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otto Nüssler: International manual of first names . Ed .: Society for German Language e. V., Wiesbaden, and the Federal Association of German Registrars e. V., Bad Salzschlirf. 2008th edition. Verlag für Standesamtwesen, ISBN 978-3-8019-5705-6 , p. 458 .