Nico’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Nico
Nico's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Nico's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Nico: meaning and origin
Behind the Name calls Nico a short form of Nicholas, or sometimes Nicodemus, and lists it as a masculine name used in Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Wikipedia describes it as a unisex given name. Nicholas comes from the Greek Nikolaos, meaning “victory of the people.” So a girl named Nico shares a name with a long line of boys, and carries a cheerful message of victory.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name’s family tree for Nico lists the full forms Nicolaas, Nicolaus, Nikolaus, Niklas and Nicodemus, the Italian Niccolò and Nicola, and the Spanish Nicolás. Its short forms include Niko. Nicki and Nikki are its feminine relatives.
Famous people named Nico
Wikipedia’s list of people named Nico includes Nico Rosberg, born in 1985, the German-Finnish former Formula One driver and 2016 World Champion, Nico Williams, born in 2002, a Spanish footballer, and Nico Tortorella, born in 1988, an American actor. It also names Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920 to 2017), a Dutch and American physicist who won the Nobel Prize, and Nico Collins, born in 1999, an American football player.
Is Nico a popular name?
Nico never appeared in a Social Security top-200 decade table, from the 1880s to the 2010s. Behind the Name lists it as a boys’ name in the United States, ranked in 38 years from 1988 and reaching 174th in 2025, with no girls’ ranking. In Europe it is much more popular: Behind the Name shows it 17th in Galicia in 2024, 24th in Switzerland in 2024 and 28th in Catalonia in 2024.
Nico trivia
Wikipedia’s Nico page mentions the singer Christa Päffgen (1938 to 1988), who was known by the name Nico and sang with the Velvet Underground. It also lists Nico Robin, a character in the manga One Piece, and Nico, a yellow canary in the film Rio.
Gift ideas that suit a Nico
- For a racing fan. A notebook for race results, with a nod to Nico Rosberg.
- For a music fan. A diary for lyrics and favorite albums.
- For an anime fan. A journal for favorite series and characters.
- For a birthday. A short, punchy name on a bold cover.
How Nico can use it
Any Nico, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Nico can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Nico’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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