Nißen
surname · Latin script
Nißen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Denmark it is the 51st most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 645as Nissen(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 13Kas Nissen
- USUnited States1 in 67Kas 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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- 1 in 645 (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named Nissen, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark, as Nissen
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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 in the world(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Nissen | 9 |
| DK Denmark | #51 | 9,098as Nissen | 1 in 645 | 9.1K | Nissen | 138 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 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 |
| BE Belgium | — | 687as Niessen | 1 in 17K | 687 | Nissen | 22 |
| NO Norway | — | 396as Nissen | 1 in 14K | 396 | Nissen | 28 |
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)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 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
- In which country does Nißen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Nissen in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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 same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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” — the 51st most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.