Negi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Negi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 15Kas Naga(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 12K
- BHBahrain≈1 in 14K
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 Negi 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
86,935 named Naga
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nag in IN India, ID Indonesia, BD Bangladesh and 2 more and Naga in PH Philippines.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Negi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #237 | 86,935as Naga | 1 in 15K | 87K | Nag | 226 |
| BD Bangladesh | #416 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Nag | 32 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Nag | 27 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Nag | 22 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Naga | 15 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #569 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Negi | 34 |
| NO Norway | — | 398as Nag | 1 in 14K | 398 | Nag | 6 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Negi | 7 |
| BH Bahrain | #911 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Negi | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 54 | 1 in 926K | 54 | Negi | 13 |
86,935 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling naga. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)
Negi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of nega
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ねぎ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, pron., 1 per., neg., I not, not I, I must , not
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In men, pron., I
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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)
- Michaël Negib. 1976FRFrench politician
- Nalini Negib. 1990INIndian actress and model
- Parimarjan Negib. 1993INIndian chess grandmaster
- Koki Negib. 2000JPJapanese association football player
- Ansh Negib. 2007INbadminton player
- Ritu NegiINIndian kabaddi player
- Lodi Rikhola Negicommander of Garhwal
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 77K | #225 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 20K | #67 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 54 | #42,521 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 54 | #42,040 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 52 | #25,456 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Negi?
- A machine transcription gives /nʒi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Negi have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 87 thousand people named Naga, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Negi?
- In Spain, the national register counted 54 people named Negi, about 1 in 926 thousand residents.
- How common is Negi compared with other names?
- In India, Negi is the 237th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Negi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/negiThe 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, “Negi” — the 237th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.