Nişo

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nişo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin nīsus, alternative form of nīxus (“strain”, noun), derived from nītor (“to press forward, to advance”).

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 134K(measured from records)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 982K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M

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.

Spain (measured from records)

373 people

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 134K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Derivation of Nişo: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Nişo
  1. Latinnīsus(measured from records)
  2. Latin rootnītor“to press forward“to press forward, to advance”(measured from records)

Borrowed from Latin nīsus, alternative form of nīxus (“strain”, noun), derived from nītor (“to press forward, to advance”).

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nişo 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 Nişo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain3731 in 134K373—1
TR Türkiye≈84 est.≈1 in 982K—Nişo16
BR Brazil221 in 9.6M64——
IN India221 in 60M22—2
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3——
BE Belgium11 in 12M1——

373 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nişo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Niso

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, South Africa, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Niso, Nīsõ, Nïso, Nîsô

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Nişo 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

What does the name Nişo mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Latin nīsus, alternative form of nīxus (“strain”, noun), derived from nītor (“to press forward, to advance”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Nişo have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 373 people named Nişo, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Nişo most common?
Nişo is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 134 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Nişo?
In Spain, the national register counted 373 people named Nişo, about 1 in 134 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, “Nişo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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