Niè
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Niè is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Essex and Middx. see Nye .
- FIFinland1 in 127K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 193K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 243K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)
1,725 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nie 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)Main GB Location (1881): Essex and Middx. see Nye . 2 Chinese: Mandarin form of the Chinese surname 聶 (Nip or Lip in Cantonese romanization), meaning ‘whisper’ in ancient Chinese: (i) from the place-name Nie (聶), the name of a fief (located in Henan province) granted to an official in the state of Wei (卫). (ii) from the place-name Nie (聶), the name of a fief (located in Shandong province) granted to son of the king Qi Ding Gong (died 976 BC) in the state of Qi. Nicols
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Niè 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,725 | 1 in 193K | 2.7K | Nie | 30 |
| ES Spain | 69 | 1 in 725K | 69 | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 52 | 1 in 4.1M | 52 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 44 | 1 in 127K | 44 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 31 | 1 in 329K | 31 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 21 | 1 in 243K | 21 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 14 | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
1,725 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nie Shichengb. 1836CNChinese Qing Dynasty general (1836–1900)
- Nie Rongzhenb. 1899CNMarshal of the People's Republic of China (1899-1992)
- Nie Gannub. 1903CNEssayist and poet
- Nie Erb. 1912CNComposed the national anthem of the People's Republic of China (1912-1935)
- Nie Fengzhib. 1913CNChinese general
- Nie Yuanzib. 1921CNChinese Red Guards leader (1921–2019)
- Hualing Nieh Engleb. 1925CNnot in their usual nameChinese American writer (1925-2024)
- Nie Weipingb. 1952CNChinese go player (1952-2026)
- Nie Haishengb. 1964CNChinese astronaut
- Nie Yuanb. 1978CNChinese actor
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Niè mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Essex and Middx. see Nye . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Niè a male or female name?
- Niè is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Niè have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Niè, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nie.
- Where is Niè most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Niè is densest in Finland — about 1 in 127 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Niè?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,725 people named Niè in 2010, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
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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%A8The 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, “Niè”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.