Nĩu
surname · Latin script
Nĩu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Romanization of Hokkien 梁 (Niû) in most dialects. Doublet of Liang.
- FIFinland1 in 93K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 167K
- USUnited States1 in 242K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 93K (inferred from the name graph)
1,372 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Niu 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)Romanization of Hokkien 梁 (Niû) in most dialects. Doublet of Liang.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nĩu 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 | 1,372 | 1 in 242K | 2.6K | Niu | 14 |
| ES Spain | 123 | 1 in 407K | 123 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 61 | 1 in 167K | 61 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 60 | 1 in 93K | 60 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 41 | 1 in 934K | 22 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 31 | 1 in 271K | 31 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 15 | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | — |
1,372 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 Nĩu mean, and where does it come from?
- Romanization of Hokkien 梁 (Niû) in most dialects. Doublet of Liang. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Nĩu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Nĩu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niu.
- Where is Nĩu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nĩu is densest in Finland — about 1 in 93 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nĩu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,372 people named Nĩu in 2010, about 1 in 242 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C4%A9uThe 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, “Nĩu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.