Nižnik
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Nižnik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Niżnik.
- PLPoland1 in 25K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 175K
- CZCzechia1 in 195K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
1,503 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Niznik in PL Poland, US United States and Nižník in SK Slovakia, CZ Czechia.
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)Borrowed from Polish Niżnik.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nižnik 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,503 | 1 in 25K | 765 | Niznik | 45 |
| US United States | 661 | 1 in 503K | 669 | Niznik | 28 |
| CZ Czechia | 55 | 1 in 195K | 55 | Nižník | 7 |
| SK Slovakia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 587K | — | Nižník | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | 12 | — | — |
1,503 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling niżnik. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the ee-stat-nimed 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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,071 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #10,113 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 7 | #95,497 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nižnik mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Niżnik. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Nižnik have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Nižnik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niznik.
- Where is Nižnik most common?
- Nižnik is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nižnik?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,503 people named Nižnik in 2026, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ni%C5%BEnikThe 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, “Nižnik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.