Nicolo is the Italian Niccolò without its accent, a form of Nicholas that comes from the Greek Nikolaos and means "victory of the people". Famous bearers include the Renaissance thinker Niccolò Machiavelli and the violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini. In the United States Nicolo is used mainly in Italian American families and has stayed rare: it stood at number 2511 in 2000 and ranks number 2745 in 2025.