Niñi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Niñi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 16th most common given name. Recorded meaning: probably from the Italian personal name Nino.
- COColombia≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- GEGeorgia1 in 386as ნინი
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 831as Hnin
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 Niñi 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 named Ni, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nini in GE Georgia, CO Colombia, Hnin in MM Myanmar (Burma), ID Indonesia and Nghệ in VN Vietnam.
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)
probably from the Italian personal name Nino.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niñi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Hnin | 178 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #16 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 831 | listed | Hnin | 76 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Nghệ | 93 |
| GE Georgia | #128 | 10,349as ნინი | 1 in 386 | 10K | Nini | 50 |
| CO Colombia | #578 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 7 | Nini | 82 |
| DK Denmark | — | 295 | 1 in 20K | 295 | — | 1 |
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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Niñi mean, and where does it come from?
- probably from the Italian personal name Nino. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Niñi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 259 thousand people named Ni in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Niñi?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 295 people named Niñi, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Niñi compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Niñi is the 16th most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Niñi?
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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%B1iThe 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, “Niñi” — the 16th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.