Не
loc · Cyrillic script
Meaning: what
Не is a name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 62K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 350K
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 19Mfew records
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 Не itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Nie in US United States.
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)what
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Не 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Не | 95 |
| US United States | 1,725as Nie | 1 in 193K | 2.7K | Nie | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 642as Ne | 1 in 330K | 642 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 69as Nie | 1 in 725K | 69 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 44as Nie | 1 in 127K | 44 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 31as Nie | 1 in 329K | 31 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 21as Nie | 1 in 243K | 21 | — | — |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Не is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, not (denoting negation)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Belarusian, no (word used to indicate disagreement or negative)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Bulgarian, used to show disagreement or negation, no
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, not, no, -n't, without
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Tajik, no, not
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nie Shichengb. 1836CNChinese Qing Dynasty general (1836–1900)
- Nie Rongzhenb. 1899CNMarshal of the People's Republic of China (1899-1992)
- Nie Gannub. 1903CNEssayist and poet
- Nie Erb. 1912CNComposed the national anthem of the People's Republic of China (1912-1935)
- Nie Fengzhib. 1913CNChinese general
- Nie Yuanzib. 1921CNChinese Red Guards leader (1921–2019)
- Hualing Nieh Engleb. 1925CNnot in their usual nameChinese American writer (1925-2024)
- Nie Weipingb. 1952CNChinese go player (1952-2026)
- Nie Haishengb. 1964CNChinese astronaut
- Nie Yuanb. 1978CNChinese actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Не mean, and where does it come from?
- what Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Не have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Не in Russia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled не.
- How common is the name Не?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,725 people named Nie in 2010, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Не?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%BD%D0%B5The 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, “Не”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.