Ņî
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ņî is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * (Chinese surname): Borrowed from Chinese 郳 (Ní), 倪 or 妮 (nī).
- FIFinland1 in 50K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
- ESSpain1 in 56K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ņî itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
4,624 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nee in US United States and নি in BD Bangladesh.
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)
* (Chinese surname): Borrowed from Chinese 郳 (Ní), 倪 or 妮 (nī).
Sources 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ņî 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,624 | 1 in 72K | 7.3K | Nee | 10 |
| ES Spain | 897 | 1 in 56K | 897 | — | 1 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 360K | — | নি | 19 |
| AR Argentina | 337 | 1 in 135K | 337 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 111 | 1 in 50K | 111 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 73as Kne | 1 in 29K | 73 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
4,624 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling ni. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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 Ņî mean, and where does it come from?
- * (Chinese surname): Borrowed from Chinese 郳 (Ní), 倪 or 妮 (nī). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 5 other sources.
- Is Ņî a male or female name?
- Ņî 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 Ņî have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Ņî, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nee.
- Where is Ņî most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ņî is densest in Finland — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ņî?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,624 people named Ņî in 2010, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%86%C3%AEThe 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, “Ņî”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.