Nico (given name) explained
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
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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
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