Niko
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Diminutive of Nikolaus and of its variants and, rarely, of Nikodemus, with formal given name status since the 1950s.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
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.
- She presents her new boyfriend Niko, reminds Ilkka of his company's import articles and the market's brightest achievement with a few sentences.
Usage notes edit
- Popular in Finland around 2000.
Declension edit
Inflection of Niko (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Niko | Nikot | ||
genitive | Nikon | Nikojen | ||
partitive | Nikoa | Nikoja | ||
illative | Nikoon | Nikoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Niko | Nikot | ||
accusative | nom. | Niko | Nikot | |
gen. | Nikon | |||
genitive | Nikon | Nikojen | ||
partitive | Nikoa | Nikoja | ||
inessive | Nikossa | Nikoissa | ||
elative | Nikosta | Nikoista | ||
illative | Nikoon | Nikoihin | ||
adessive | Nikolla | Nikoilla | ||
ablative | Nikolta | Nikoilta | ||
allative | Nikolle | Nikoille | ||
essive | Nikona | Nikoina | ||
translative | Nikoksi | Nikoiksi | ||
abessive | Nikotta | Nikoitta | ||
instructive | — | Nikoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- 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 edit
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Niko
- a male given name, variant of Nico
Proper noun edit
Niko
- a diminutive of the female given names Nikola or Nicole, of rare usage.[1]
References edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
A hypocoristic form of Nìkola.
Proper noun edit
Níko m (Cyrillic spelling Ни́ко)
- a male given name
Declension edit
This entry needs an inflection-table template.