Nissé

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nissé is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Nisse, pet form of the common male given name Niels. Compare Swedish nisse.

rarermore common
  • SESweden≈1 in 216K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 245K
  • DKDenmark≈1 in 302K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈280 people, est.

Sources
76 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 216K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nisse in US United States, SE Sweden, DE Germany and 2 more.

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)

From Nisse, pet form of the common male given name Niels. Compare Swedish nisse.

Sources 2

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nissé 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.

Where Nissé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈280 est.≈1 in 245K37Nisse2
DE Germany≈130 est.≈1 in 626K—Nisse33
US United States≈100 est.≈1 in 3.2MlistedNisse76
SE Sweden≈47 est.≈1 in 216K524Nisse21
GB United Kingdom≈40 est.≈1 in 1.6M16Nisse32
BE Belgium291 in 404K29—3
DK Denmark≈19 est.≈1 in 302K6——

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nissé is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nisse

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Morocco

    Also written Nisse, Nïsse, Nîssë

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nissé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nissé mean, and where does it come from?
From Nisse, pet form of the common male given name Niels. Compare Swedish nisse. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
Is Nissé a male or female name?
Nissé 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.
In which country does Nissé have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 277 people named Nissé in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nisse.
How common is the name Nissé?
In Belgium, the national register counted 29 people named Nissé in 2008, about 1 in 404 thousand residents.

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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, “Nissé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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