Niko
How many real pets are named Niko, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Niko as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 280 pets are named Niko: 271 dogs, 9 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #288 among dog names and #1,180 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Niko
Dogs
- Yorkshire Terrier: 30
- Shih Tzu: 16
- Chihuahua: 16
- Siberian Husky: 16
- Pit Bull: 15
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Niko
- New York City: 214licensed
- Austin shelter: 33shelter
- Seattle: 13licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 10shelter
- Cambridge, MA: 7licensed
- Richmond, VA: 2licensed
- Zurich: 1licensed
Niko as a human name
This is the meaning of Niko as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the male given names Nikola, Nikolas, and Nikolaos, from Greek.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Niko
Dog names about as popular as Niko
Niko FAQ
How many pets are named Niko?
In the public pet records we track, 280 pets are named Niko: 271 dogs, 9 cats. Where sex was recorded, 3% are female and 97% male. It ranks #288 among dog names and #1,180 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Niko?
Among dogs named Niko in these records, the most common breed is Yorkshire Terrier.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Pet Licenses, City of Richmond; Animal Shelter Intake and Outcome, County of Sonoma; Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.