Ñïs

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ñïs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A medieval contraction of Niels (“Nicholas”).

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 25K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 57K
  • ARArgentina1 in 82K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

3,695 people

Sources
64 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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”).

Sources 3

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(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.

Where Ñïs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil3,6951 in 57K3.7K——
AR Argentina5521 in 82K552—1
UY Uruguay1381 in 25K138——
BE Belgium261 in 451K26—1
ES Spain81 in 6.3M8—1

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ñïs is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname46 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, France, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Nis, Nïs, Ñis, Niş, Ñîs

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ñïs under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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 recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Ñïs have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Ñïs, more than in any other country we hold.
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.

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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”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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