Niñel

surname · Latin script

Niñel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 685 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.

  • MDMoldova1 in 35K(measured from records)
  • LVLatvia1 in 188K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 189K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

United States (measured from records)

685 people, 2020

Record sources
62 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ninel in US United States, ES Spain.

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 across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Niñel 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.

Where Niñel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6851 in 486K667Ninel8
PL Poland1931 in 198K191——
MD Moldova971 in 35K97——
ES Spain551 in 909K55Ninel4
SE Sweden481 in 213K48—1
CR Costa Rica271 in 189K27——
LV Latvia101 in 188K10—1

685 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Niñel is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Russia, United States, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian

    Also written Ninel, Нинел, Нинель, Ninelь

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Peru, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ninel, Ninél

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ninel

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Ninel

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Niñel under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people named Niñel?
In the United States, the national register counted about 685 people named Niñel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ninel. After it come Poland, Moldova, Spain and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Niñel most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Niñel is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Niñel?
In the United States, the national register counted 685 people named Niñel in 2020, about 1 in 486 thousand residents.

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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, “Niñel” — ranked 16455th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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