Nißen
surname · Latin script
Nißen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common surname. Nißen is also written นิสเซ็น in Thai.
- DKDenmark1 in 645as Nissen(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 9.6Kas Niessen
- DEGermany≈1 in 12Kas Nissen
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 Nißen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- 1 in 645 (inferred from the name graph)
9,098 named Nissen
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark, as Nissen
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Nißen in other scripts: Latin and Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Nissen in US United States, DK Denmark, DE Germany and 4 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Nißen is found
(measured from records)Nißen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #51 | 9,098as Nissen | 1 in 645 | 9.1K | Nissen | 138 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Nissen | 141 |
| US United States | — | 4,964as Nissen | 1 in 67K | 5K | Nissen | 334 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,803as Niessen | 1 in 9.6K | 1.8K | Nissen | 25 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Nissen | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 687as Niessen | 1 in 17K | 687 | Nissen | 22 |
| NO Norway | — | 396as Nissen | 1 in 14K | 396 | Nissen | 28 |
9,098 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nißen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Nissen, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, United States, Netherlands and Ghana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nißen most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Nißen itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Denmark's: the national register counts about 1 in 645 people named Nissen.
- How common is the name Nißen?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 9,098 people named Nissen, about 1 in 645 residents.
- How common is Nißen compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Nißen is the 51st most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nißen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ni%C3%9FenThe 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, “Nißen” — ranked 44th in Denmark (Danmarks Statistik). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.