Nyàri

surname · Latin script

Nyàri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.

  • DEGermany≈1 in 710Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.1Mfew records
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 1.1Mfew records

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.

Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,500 people, est.

Record sources
63 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Tanzania, 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 Nyari in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 2 more and Nyári in AT Austria.

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 across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Nyàri 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 Nyàri is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TZ Tanzania≈4,500 est.≈1 in 15K—Nyari10
US United States1441 in 2.3M144Nyari63
BR Brazil1201 in 1.8M120——
DE Germany≈120 est.≈1 in 706K—Nyari35
GB United Kingdom≈64 est.≈1 in 1.1M48Nyari29
AT Austria≈16 est.≈1 in 566K—Nyári5
BZ Belize≈2 est.≈1 in 178K—Nyari1

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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Nyàri is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Tanzania, United Kingdom, Kenya

    Also written Nyari, Nyári

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Tanzania

    Also written Nyari, Nyári, Nyãri

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Morocco, Tanzania

    Also written Nyari, Nyári, Nyãri

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Nyàri 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

In which country does Nyàri have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Nyàri in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nyari.
How common is the name Nyàri?
In the United States, the national register counted 144 people named Nyàri in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million 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, “Nyàri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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