Is nico a boy or girl name?

It is mainly used for boys, but there are some girls named Nico

• for example the singer/model who started with the Velvet

Underground and later had a solo career - Vanessa Williams character on Ugly Betty - and the blonde CEO of a fashion magazine on Lipstick Jungle.

If you google "Nico", you get masses of hits of the female singer before any hits on male Nico's