Ninfa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: nymph
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ninfa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ninfa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 3.5K
- PEPeru≈1 in 7.3K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
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(measured from records)
nymph
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ninfa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Ninfa | 31 |
| PY Paraguay | #203 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Ninfa | 22 |
| CO Colombia | #931 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 2 | Ninfa | 47 |
| EC Ecuador | #545 | 4,795 | 1 in 3.5K | 4.8K | Ninfa | 28 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Ninfa | 38 |
| VE Venezuela | #994 | 3,094 | 1 in 9.3K | 3.1K | Ninfa | 19 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Ninfa | 22 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ninfa 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 Greek, griego nýmphē: 'novia', 'ninfa'; deidad femenina inferior.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Sposa o donna giovane e bella
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Saint Ninfab. 300ITone of the four patron saints of Palermo, Sicily
- Ninfa Baroniob. 1874USItalian-American anarcha-feminist activist (1874-1969)
- Ninfa Deándarb. 1940MXMexican journalist
- Ninfa Álvarezb. 1967CLChilean judoka
- Ninfa Marrab. 1974VEVenezuelan professional tennis player
- Ninfa Salinas Sadab. 1980MXMexican politician
- Gilia Gutiérrezb. 1990PEnot in their usual namePeruvian lawyer
- Ninfa Yuparib. 1997BOBolivian amateur wrestler
- Ninfa Radicellaresearcher
- Ninfa ParreirasBRBrazilian writer
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)
Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Ninfa mean, and where does it come from?
- nymph Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ninfa?
- In the etymology graph, Nympha is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ninfa?
- A machine transcription gives /ninfa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Ninfa a male or female name?
- Ninfa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ninfa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Ninfa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ninfa.
- How common is the name Ninfa?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,795 people named Ninfa in 2024, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Ninfa compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Ninfa is the 203rd most common given name of 20,931 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ninfa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ninfaThe 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, “Ninfa” — the 203rd most common given name in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.