Nihei
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nihei is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 3.2M
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 2 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)
179 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nihei 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 | 179 | 1 in 1.9M | 179 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 67 | 1 in 3.2M | 67 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | — | — | — | Nihei | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
179 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hideo Niheib. 1932JPJapanese actor
- Kōichi Niheib. 1937JPJapanese actor (1937-)
- Takeo Niheib. 1938JPJapanese economist (1938-2009)
- Masanari Niheib. 1940JPJapanese actor (1940-2021)
- Shōhei Hinob. 1949JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor (1949–2024)
- Tsutomu Niheib. 1971JPJapanese manga artist (b. 1971)
- Hideko Niheib. 1971JPJapanese sprinter
- Tarō Niheib. 1971JPJapanese ice hockey player
- Takuya Niheib. 1984JPJapanese actor
- Tsubasa Niheib. 1994JPJapanese association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Nihei have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 179 people named Nihei, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nihei most common?
- Nihei is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nihei?
- In the United States, the national register counted 179 people named Nihei in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nihei?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niheiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nihei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.