Nego
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nego is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as used as a placeholder when referring to people in general.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 213K
- CLChile≈1 in 412K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 213K (inferred from the name graph)
171 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ñego in DO Dominican Republic, CO Colombia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
apocopic form of negosiasi (“negotiation”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nego is read(measured from records)
Nego is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese75%
used as a placeholder when referring to people in general
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nego in French.
- Slovenian10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nego in Slovenian.
- Indonesian7.8%
apocopic form of negosiasi (“negotiation”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nego 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.
171 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Nego 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 Italian, alternative form of niego (“denial, refusal”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of negar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, than (in comparisons, following the comparative)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, plural past indicative of niga
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)
- Erica Negob. 1984USAmerican beauty pageant contestant
- Azongha Tembeng Abenegob. 1991CMnot in their usual nameassociation football player
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 306 | #19,531 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 179 | #40,245 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 171 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 171 | #28,378 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 145 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 88 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 57 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 55 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 33 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Where does the name Nego come from?
- apocopic form of negosiasi (“negotiation”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Nego mean?
- In Portuguese, used as a placeholder when referring to people in general
- In which country does Nego have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 171 people named Nego, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nego.
- How common is the name Nego?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 171 people named Nego in 2022, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nego?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/negoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nego”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.