Nie
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from the name of Nie City, which existed during the Spring and Autumn period (722^81 BC)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 193K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 127K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 243K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- 1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)
1,725 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
never
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nie is read(measured from records)
Nie is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English31%
from the name of Nie City, which existed during the Spring and Autumn period (722^81 BC). It was granted to a son of a duke of the state of Qi; his descendants adopted the name of the city as their surname.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Initialism of National Intelligence Estimate.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
variant spelling of Nyf.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- Chinese26%
nonstandard spelling of niē
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German6.8%
never
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
never, never at all (referring to an indefinite period of time)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nie in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nie 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 | 1,725 | 1 in 193K | 2.7K | Nie | 262 |
| ES Spain | 69 | 1 in 725K | 69 | — | 13 |
| BR Brazil | 52 | 1 in 4.1M | 52 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 44 | 1 in 127K | 44 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 31 | 1 in 329K | 31 | — | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 21 | 1 in 243K | 21 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 14 | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
1,725 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nie Shichengb. 1836CNChinese Qing Dynasty general (1836–1900)
- Nie Rongzhenb. 1899CNMarshal of the People's Republic of China (1899-1992)
- Nie Gannub. 1903CNEssayist and poet
- Nie Erb. 1912CNComposed the national anthem of the People's Republic of China (1912-1935)
- Nie Fengzhib. 1913CNChinese general
- Nie Yuanzib. 1921CNChinese Red Guards leader (1921–2019)
- Hualing Nieh Engleb. 1925CNnot in their usual nameChinese American writer (1925-2024)
- Nie Weipingb. 1952CNChinese go player (1952-2026)
- Nie Haishengb. 1964CNChinese astronaut
- Nie Yuanb. 1978CNChinese actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #45,319 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,835 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #53,700 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Nie come from?
- never Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Nie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Nie mean?
- In English, from the name of Nie City, which existed during the Spring and Autumn period (722^81 BC).
- In which country does Nie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Nie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nie.
- Where is Nie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nie is densest in Finland — about 1 in 127 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,725 people named Nie in 2010, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nieThe 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, “Nie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.