Nińo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nińo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A hypocoristic form of Nìkola.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 2K
- PEPeru≈1 in 7.6K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Niño in VE Venezuela, CO Colombia, PE Peru and 2 more and Nino in US United States.
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)
A hypocoristic form of Nìkola.
Sources 7
- A dictionary of surnames
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nińo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #245 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 57 | Niño | 118 |
| VE Venezuela | #331 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Niño | 40 |
| US United States | — | 11,202 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Nino | 282 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,836 | 1 in 10K | 4.8K | Niño | 91 |
| PE Peru | #832 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Niño | 48 |
| SV El Salvador | #689 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Niño | 11 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 Nińo mean, and where does it come from?
- A hypocoristic form of Nìkola. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Nińo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Nińo in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niño.
- How common is the name Nińo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,202 people named Nińo in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Nińo compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Nińo is the 245th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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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%C5%84oThe 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, “Nińo” — the 245th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.