Niên
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sino-Vietnamese reading of 年
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Niên 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 996K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1M
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M
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
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 996K (inferred from the name graph)
334 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nien in US United States, MY Malaysia, CA Canada.
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)Sino-Vietnamese reading of 年
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Niên 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 | 334 | 1 in 996K | 190 | Nien | 33 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 16 | — | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Nien | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Nien | 7 |
334 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nian Fub. 1395not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 67646
- Nian Zhonglongb. 1622not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 73870
- Nian Xialingb. 1645not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 57478
- Nian Xiyaob. 1650not in their usual nameQing dynasty politician and mathematician, 1671-1738
- Nian Gengyaob. 1679not in their usual nameChinese general (1679-1726)
- Nian Yuehub. 1689not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 73869
- Imperial Noble Consort Dunsub. 1690CNnot in their usual nameConsort of the Yongzheng Emperor (d. 1725)
- Nian Weisib. 1933CNnot in their usual nameChinese football player and manager
- Nian Yunb. 1982CNnot in their usual nameOlympic swimmer of China
- Nian Xinot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 66216
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Niên mean, and where does it come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese reading of 年 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Niên a male or female name?
- Niên is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Niên have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 334 people named Niên, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nien.
- Where is Niên most common?
- Niên is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 996 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Niên?
- In the United States, the national register counted 334 people named Niên in 2020, about 1 in 996 thousand residents.
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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%AAnThe 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, “Niên”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.