Given name
Niilo
“of the victorious people”
Niilo is a form of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Niilo is a form of Nicholas. One Greek interpretation is “of the victorious people.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Niilo is a form of Nicholas. An origin associated with Nicholas is Dutch.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Finnish use, Niilo is used as a form of Nicholas.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Niilo is a form of Nicholas. The history of Nicholas gives this family its wider story. Nicholas’s Christian associations include Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop of Myra in Lycia, about whom virtually nothing factual is known.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Niilo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 44
- 44 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Niilo’s family of names
Niilo shares a linguistic root with Nicholas. In Finnish usage, Niilo has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Mikuláš. Niilo is a form of Nicholas.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Niilo has relatives in 5 languages.
5 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Nicholascognate · English
- Nikoequivalent
- Nikolaiequivalent
- Nikolausequivalent
- Nilsequivalent
- Nielsequivalent
- ΝικόλαοςGreek
- NicolásSpanish
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People named Niilo
- Niilo SevänenFinnish musician and writerborn 1979
- Niilo MäenpääFinnish association football playerborn 1998
- Niilo WälläriFinnish politician1897–1967
- Niilo RyhtäFinnish politician and civil servant (1906–1995)
- Niilo TarvajärviFinnish journalist, politician and pesäpallo player (1914-2002)
- Kalervo KallioFinnish sculptor (1909–1969)
- Niilo MoilanenFinnish cross country skierborn 2001
- Niilo KosolaFinnish politician (1911–1996)
- Niilo LiakkaFinnish politician and journalist (1864-1945)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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