Niño
surname · Latin script
Meaning: child, boy
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/niɲo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Niño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 2K
- PEPeru≈1 in 7.6K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nino in US United States.
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)
child, boy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niño 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #245 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 57 | Niño | 118 |
| VE Venezuela | #331 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Niño | 40 |
| US United States | — | 11,202 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Nino | 282 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,836 | 1 in 10K | 4.8K | Niño | 91 |
| PE Peru | #832 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Niño | 48 |
| SV El Salvador | #689 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Niño | 11 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Niño 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 Galician, nest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, " Niño, niñua, (la) pupila" Iz ArOñ .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Pero Niñob. 1378ESCastilian privateer (1378-1453)
- José Ferrándiz y Niñob. 1847ESsoldier, politician, vice admiral
- Avraham Niniob. 1918ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli theater director and actor
- Alex Niñob. 1940PHFilipino artist
- Eduardo Niñob. 1967COColombian footballer
- Libardo Niñob. 1968COColombian racing cyclist
- Pablo Niñob. 1981ESSpanish footballer
- Sofia Niño de Riverab. 1981MXMexican actress and comedian
- Janet Soberob. 1983PEnot in their usual namePeruvian amateur wrestler
- Adrián Niño Herediab. 2004ESSpanish footballer (born 2004)
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 25 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.8K | #1,089 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.8K | #1,089 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 57 | #61 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Niño mean, and where does it come from?
- child, boy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Niño?
- A machine transcription gives /niɲo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Niño have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Niño in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niño.
- How common is the name Niño?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,202 people named Niño in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Niño compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Niño is the 245th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Niño?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ni%C3%B1oThe 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, “Niño” — the 245th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.