Niam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Legge
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnaɪəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Niam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 314K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 160K
- ALAlbania1 in 220K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 160K (inferred from the name graph)
1,061 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Legge
Sources 1
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Niam, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,061 | 1 in 314K | 1K | Niam | 110 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Niam | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 7 | Niam | 51 |
| NL Netherlands | 39 | 1 in 443K | 32 | Niam | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 692K | — | Niam | 26 |
| SE Sweden | 37 | 1 in 276K | 37 | — | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 350K | — | Niam | 19 |
| AL Albania | 14 | 1 in 220K | 10 | — | — |
1,061 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Niam is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In aot, custom, law, tradition
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mww, mother, woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #11,903 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 169 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 155 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 141 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 137 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 133 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 130 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 127 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 126 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 125 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 57 | #11,903 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 37 | #16,569 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Niam?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnaɪəm/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Niam a male or female name?
- Niam is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Niam mean, and where does it come from?
- Legge Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,….
- In which country does Niam have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Niam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niam.
- How common is the name Niam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,061 people named Niam in 2020, about 1 in 314 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Niam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niamThe 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, “Niam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.