Nicodemus
2025 SSA
About Nicodemus
This rarely used New Testament name could make an unusual route to the cool nickname Nico. Borne by the person who helps to entomb Jesus following his crucifixion, it has the powerful meaning of "victory of the people" and is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek Nikodemos.
A literary choice, it is given to the character Nicodemus (Noddy) Boffin in the Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend, while in the real-world, it is chosen for a small but substantial number of boys in the US each year, with 35 born in a recent count.
The English pronunciation is nik-uh-DEE-muhs, while in Latin it would be nee-ko-DEH-moos. Nikodem is the more popular Polish form, also heard in the UK and in the Netherlands.
Pronounced nik-oh-DEE-mus.
As of October 2026, Nicodemus ranked #2826 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #2482 in 1994.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,072 | 37 | 19.3 |
| 2015 | #3,656 | 30 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | #4,063 | 26 | 13.7 |
| 2017 | #3,233 | 36 | 19.4 |
| 2018 | #3,496 | 32 | 17.6 |
| 2019 | #3,541 | 32 | 17.8 |
| 2020 | #3,011 | 39 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | #3,105 | 39 | 22.3 |
| 2022 | #2,742 | 48 | 27.5 |
| 2023 | #3,266 | 37 | 21.6 |
| 2024 | #3,360 | 35 | 20.3 |
| 2025 | #2,826 | 45 | 26.3 |
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Italian monk
- Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and Younger
Swedish architects
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1st century wealthy resident of Jerusalem who may have been the Biblical Nicodemus
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- Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin
German philologist
- Nicodemus Hieronymus Alois Georg Hubertus Mario Hugo Eusebius Maria (b. 2001)
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- Nicodemus León "Nico" DiMarco (b. 2015)
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Nicodemus in pop culture
- Dr. Nicodemus West
character in Marvel Universe
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