Nené

given name · Latin script

Meaning: kid; kiddo; young child

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nené is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 316K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 182K
  • DKDenmark1 in 326K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,051 people, 2020

Sources
88 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 182K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nene in US United States, ES Spain, CL Chile.

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)

kid; kiddo; young child

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nené 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.

Where Nené is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0511 in 316K828Nene88
BR Brazil2031 in 1M353—1
ES Spain931 in 538K93Nene28
SE Sweden561 in 182K56—8
CL Chile≈49 est.≈1 in 369K1Nene16
DK Denmark181 in 326K18——
FI Finland161 in 348K40——

1,051 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nené is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Senegal, Belgium

    Also written Nene, Néné, Nènè, Néne, Nenê

  • English given name39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nene, Néné, Ne-Ne, Ne'Ne, Néne

  • Thai given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Nigeria

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Nene, เนเน่, เนเน, เน่เน่, เนเนะ

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Nene, Nènè, Ñeñe, Nenê, Néné

  • Estonian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Nene, Nenè, Nénè

  • Persian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran

    Also written Nene

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Nené is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, baby

    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)

1900195020002050Nené Cascallar, b. 1914Nené Cao, b. 1920Nené Losada, b. 1921Nené Malbrán, b. 1933Néné Gbamblé, b. 2002

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)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nené mean, and where does it come from?
kid; kiddo; young child Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Nené a male or female name?
Nené is a female 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 Nené have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Nené, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nene.
Where is Nené most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nené is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 182 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nené?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,051 people named Nené in 2020, about 1 in 316 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Nené”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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