Ñïs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ñïs is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 3,695 people, counted by IBGE. Recorded meaning: A medieval contraction of Niels (“Nicholas”).
- UYUruguay1 in 25K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 57K
- ARArgentina1 in 82K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
3,695 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A medieval contraction of Niels (“Nicholas”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ñïs is found
(measured from records)Ñïs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
3,695 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ñïs mean, and where does it come from?
- A medieval contraction of Niels (“Nicholas”). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Ñïs a male or female name?
- Ñïs is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ñïs?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Ñïs, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Argentina, Uruguay, Belgium and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ñïs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ñïs is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ñïs?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,695 people named Ñïs, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ñïs?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B1%C3%AFsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ñïs” — ranked 2875th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.