Niël
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Niël is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: In France, most prevalent in Seine-Maritime.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 9.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 22K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 96K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Niel in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom 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(measured from records)
In France, most prevalent in Seine-Maritime.
Sources 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niël 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Niel | 95 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Niel | 55 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Niel | 62 |
| US United States | 1,161 | 1 in 287K | 1.1K | Niel | 255 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 96K | 3 | Niel | 126 |
| BE Belgium | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 8 | Niel | 32 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Niel | 29 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Niël mean, and where does it come from?
- In France, most prevalent in Seine-Maritime. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- Is Niël a male or female name?
- Niël is a male 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 Niël have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Niël in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niel.
- How common is the name Niël?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,161 people named Niël in 2020, about 1 in 287 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Niël?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ni%C3%ABlThe 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, “Niël”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.