Meaning and background
The story behind Mico
Mico has more than one dictionary association. Merriam-Webster records a marmoset sense and separately a Muskogean title for a chief. Those meanings belong to different word contexts and should not be combined into one personal-name translation. A dog named Mico may follow a family nickname instead, which this source does not establish. The evidence here keeps the animal and title associations clearly scoped.
- Association
- Word recorded for a marmoset; a separate homograph is a Muskogean chiefly title. Source
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About Mico
Recorded as a dog’s name
Mico appears in 6 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Sources and research notes (1)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
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