Neéma
surname · Latin script
Neéma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: to be well off. Neéma is also written นิหม๊ะ in Thai.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 110(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 3.1Kfew records
- INIndia≈1 in 79K
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 Neéma 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 105 (inferred from the name graph)
≈650,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Neéma in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Neema in IN India, TZ Tanzania, US United States and 3 more.
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)to be well off.
Cited for this meaning 3
- African Names
- Nordic Names
- The book of African names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Neéma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #133 | ≈650,000 est. | ≈1 in 105 | 36 | Neema | 35 |
| IN India | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 1K | Neema | 97 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | listed | Neema | 15 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 2 | Neema | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1,504 | 1 in 221K | 1.2K | Neema | 194 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Neema | 25 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Heuristic parse of census.name; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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 Neéma mean, and where does it come from?
- to be well off. Recorded by African Names and Nordic Names and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people named Neéma?
- Mondonomo estimates about 652 thousand people named Neéma in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neema. After it come India, Kenya, Congo - Kinshasa and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Neéma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,504 people named Neéma in 2020, about 1 in 221 thousand residents.
- How common is Neéma compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Neéma is the 133rd most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
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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, “Neéma” — ranked 2nd in Tanzania (Heuristic parse of census.name). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.