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Finnish
Etymology
Diminutive of Nikolaus and of its variants and, rarely, of Nikodemus, with formal given name status since the 1950s.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Niko
- 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.
Usage notes
- Popular in Finland around 2000.
Declension
Statistics
- Niko is the 35th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 16,926 male individuals (and as a middle name to 1,680 more), and also belongs to 10 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Niko
- a male given name, variant of Nico
Proper noun
Niko
- a diminutive of the female given names Nikola or Nicole, of rare usage.[1]
References
- ^ Internationales Handbuch der Vornamen [International Handbook of Forenames] (in German), Frankfurt am Main/Berlin: Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache e. V., Wiesbaden, und dem Bundesverband der Deutschen Standesbeamten e. V., Bad Salzschlirf, 2008, →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
A hypocoristic form of Nìkola.
Proper noun
Níko m (Cyrillic spelling Ни́ко)
- a male given name
Declension
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