Nico (given name)
Nico is a unisex given name. It is a short form of Nicholas, Nicolas, Nicola, Nicole and others. In Italian it may also be short for Domenico and for Nicodemo. Notable people with the name include:
- Nico, born Christa Päffgen, singer with The Velvet Underground
- Nico Aaltonen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Nico Abegglen, Swiss footballer
- Nico Antonitsch, Austrian footballer
- Nico Archambault, Canadian dancer and choreographer
- Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player
- Nico Baleani, Spanish footballer
- Nico Baracchi, Swiss bobsledder
- Nico Berg, Canadian soccer player
- Nico Bettge, German slalom canoeist
- Nico Beyer, German film director and producer
- Nico Binst, Belgian footballer
- Nico Bloembergen, Dutch and American physicist and Nobel laureate
- Nico Bodonczy, Chilean-American soccer player
- Nico Boje, South African cricketer
- Nico H.J. van den Boogaard, Dutch medievalist scholar
- Nico Bouvy, Dutch footballer
- Nico Braun, Luxembourgian footballer
- Nico de Bree, Dutch football goalkeeper
- Nico van Breemen, Dutch soil scientist
- Nico Broekhuysen, Dutch teacher and inventor of korfball
- Nico Brüngger, Swiss cyclist
- Nico Burchert, German footballer
- Nico Buwalda, Dutch footballer
- Nico Carstens, South African accordionist and songwriter
- Nico Casavecchia, Argentine director
- Nico Castel, Multinational operatic tenor
- Nico Claesen, Belgian footballer
- Nico Colaluca, American soccer player
- Nico Collard, American music director, producer, and guitarist
- Nico Covatti, Argentine motorcycle speedway rider
- Nico Däbritz, German footballer
- Nico de Boinville, English jockey
- Nico F. Declercq, Belgian physicist and mechanical engineer
- Nico Delle Karth, Austrian sailor
- Nico Denz, German cyclist
- Nico Dewalque, Belgian footballer
- Nico Diederichs, South African State President
- Nico Dijkshoorn, Dutch author, columnist, and musician
- Nico Dostal, Austrian operetta and film music composer
- Nico Eekman, Belgian figurative painter
- Nico Elorde, Filipino basketball player
- Nico Elvedi, Swiss footballer
- Nico Emonds, Belgian cyclist
- Nico Empen, German footballer
- Nico Esterhuyse, Namibian rugby player
- Nico Evers-Swindell, New Zealand actor
- Nico Falah, American football player
- Nico Fidenco, Italian singer
- Nico Freriks, Dutch volleyball player
- Nico Frijda, Dutch psychologist
- Nico Frommer, German footballer
- Nico Frutos, Argentine footballer
- Nico van Gageldonk, Dutch cyclist
- Nico Gaitán, Argentine footballer
- Nico Gardener, British bridge player
- Nico Gorzel, German footballer
- Nico Granatowski, German footballer
- Nico Gunzburg, Belgian lawyer and criminologist
- Nico Gutjahr, German footballer
- Nico de Haas, Dutch photographer and currency designer
- Nico Habermann, Dutch computer scientist
- Nico Hambro, Norwegian female politician
- Nico Hammann, German footballer
- Nico Hülkenberg, German Formula One driver
- Nico Jalink, Dutch football player
- Nico Kasanda, Congo guitarist and composer
- Nico Landeweerd, Dutch water polo player
- Nico Mirallegro, British actor
- Nico Motchebon, German runner
- Nico Muhly, American contemporary classical composer
- Nico Mbarga, Nigerian musician
- Nico Naldini, Italian novelist, poet, and film director
- Nico Nyberg, Finnish ice hockey player
- Nico Onkenhout, Dutch sculptor
- Nico Pulzetti, Italian footballer
- Nico Pepe, Italian film actor
- Nico Perrone, Italian journalist
- Nico Rosberg, German-Finnish former Formula One driver and 2016 Formula One World Champion
- Nico Schulz, German footballer
- Nico Siragusa, American football player
- Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
- Nico Vascellari Italian artist and musician
- Nico Verhoeven, Dutch cyclist
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 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!
- Nico, a yellow canary in the film Rio and its sequel Rio 2
