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