Ní
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ní is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 16th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GEGeorgia1 in 386as ნინი
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 831as Hnin
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ní itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nini in GE Georgia, CO Colombia, BR Brazil, Hnin in MM Myanmar (Burma), ID Indonesia and Nghệ in VN Vietnam.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ní 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Hnin | 178 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #16 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 831 | listed | Hnin | 76 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Nghệ | 93 |
| GE Georgia | #128 | 10,349as ნინი | 1 in 386 | 10K | Nini | 50 |
| CO Colombia | #578 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 7 | Nini | 82 |
| BR Brazil | — | 158 | 1 in 1.3M | 196 | Nini | 43 |
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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ní is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ko-pro, louse
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In ko-pro, tooth
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Czech, genitive/dative/locative and instrumental singular of ona
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 倪
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In iir-pro, down, downwards
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dak, live, be alive
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ni Zanb. 1301CNChinese painter (1301-1374)
- Ni Kwei-tsengb. 1869CN(1869-1931), mother of Soong sisters
- Watchman Neeb. 1903CNnot in their usual nameChinese church leader (1903–1972)
- Ni Kuangb. 1935USHong Kong writer (1935–2022)
- Ni Zhenb. 1938CNChinese screenwriter and professor (1938-2022)
- Ni Dahongb. 1960CNChinese actor
- Ni Yulanb. 1961CNChinese human rights activist
- Ni Xialianb. 1963LULuxembourgian table tennis player
- Ni Hongb. 1986CNChinese fencer
- Ni Nib. 1988CNChinese actress
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ní have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 259 thousand people named Ní in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hnin.
- How common is the name Ní?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 158 people named Ní in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Ní compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Ní is the 16th most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ní?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%ADThe 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, “Ní” — the 16th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.