Nghi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to doubt, to suspect
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ŋi˨˨/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nghi is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 172K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 155K
- FIFinland1 in 310K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 155K (inferred from the name graph)
1,939 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)to doubt, to suspect
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nghi 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 | 1,939 | 1 in 172K | 1.2K | Nghi | 94 |
| SE Sweden | 66 | 1 in 155K | 66 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 18 | 1 in 310K | 93 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 12 | 1 in 1.4M | 12 | Nghi | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
1,939 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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Nghi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: “nghi lễ, phép tắc, đoan trang”; tên dùng cho dòng con cháu hoàng tộc.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt: nghi, đúng mực/điều nên; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Diên Khánh vương.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
Neptunah, Neptune
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Welsh, nasal mutation of ci
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)- Yang Yib. 1404not in their usual namepolitician
- Chen Yib. 1414not in their usual namepolitician, Ming dynasty person CBDB = 130839
- Nguyễn Phúc Miên Nghib. 1810VN(1810-1874)
- Nghi Tranb. 1978FIFrench sprinter
- Nghi Vob. 1981USAmerican author
- Chen Yib. 1986TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese tennis player
- Cheng Yinot in their usual nameperson living in Han dynasty
- Gong Yinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 35231
- Wang Yinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 267025
- Yu Yinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 251750
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #7,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 711 | #7,742 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 93 | #3,078 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 66 | #11,396 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 48 | #5,868 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 13 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 12 | #20,060 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #6,413 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 5 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5 | — |
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 Nghi mean, and where does it come from?
- to doubt, to suspect Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nghi?
- A machine transcription gives /ŋi˨˨/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Nghi a male or female name?
- Nghi is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Finland (DVV). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Nghi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Nghi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nghi.
- Where is Nghi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nghi is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 155 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nghi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,939 people named Nghi in 2020, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nghi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nghiThe 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, “Nghi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.