Niema
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Niema is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country. In Eritrea it is the 49th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 34Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 444K
- ESSpain1 in 490K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Eritrea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Niema 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 1 | Niema | 12 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Niema | 18 |
| ER Eritrea | #49 | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Niema | 3 |
| US United States | — | 454 | 1 in 733K | 439 | Niema | 155 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Niema | 2 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Niema | 7 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Niema is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, female equivalent of niemy (“mute person”)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Niema Movassatb. 1984DEGerman politician
- Niemat KukuSDnot in their usual nameSudanese activist
- Niema MoshiriUSresearcher
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)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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Niema a male or female name?
- Niema is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE).
- Which countries have the most people named Niema?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Niema in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niema. After it come Morocco, Eritrea, United States and Ghana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Niema?
- In the United States, the national register counted 454 people named Niema in 2020, about 1 in 733 thousand residents.
- How common is Niema compared with other names?
- In Eritrea, Niema is the 49th most common given name of 82 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Niema?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niemaThe 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, “Niema” — ranked 223rd in the Sudan (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.