Nëý
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nëý is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Persian نی (ney).
- ECEcuador1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 6.3K
- BRBrazil1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 289 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
7,867 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ney in BR Brazil, US United States, EC Ecuador.
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)Borrowed from Persian نی (ney).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nëý 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 7,867 | 1 in 27K | 8.3K | Ney | 4 |
| EC Ecuador | 2,980 | 1 in 5.7K | 3K | Ney | 17 |
| VE Venezuela | 676 | 1 in 42K | 676 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 538 | 1 in 6.3K | 538 | — | — |
| US United States | 419 | 1 in 794K | 3.4K | Ney | 289 |
| CR Costa Rica | 39 | 1 in 131K | 39 | — | — |
7,867 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INEC — civil registry names; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nëý mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Persian نی (ney). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Nëý a male or female name?
- Nëý is a male 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.
- In which country does Nëý have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Nëý, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ney.
- Where is Nëý most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nëý is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nëý?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 7,867 people named Nëý in 2022, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nëý?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%AB%C3%BDThe 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, “Nëý”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.