Nici
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of negative ion chemical ionization
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Nici is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- ATAustria
- DEGermany
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Initialism of negative ion chemical ionization.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Nici is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, inflection of nić:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, not even
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)- Nici Sterlingb. 1968GBBritish pornographic actress
- Nici Deeb. 1994CZCzech pornographic 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 154 | #16,810 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 132 | #121,058 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 120 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 113 | #34,159 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 111 | #36,254 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 108 | #150,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 103 | #157,234 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 99 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 69 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 65 | #4,197 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 49 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 49 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Nici mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of negative ion chemical ionization. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Nici a male or female name?
- Nici is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Nici have the most bearers?
- Nici is most frequently recorded in Germany.
What do you want to know about Nici?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niciThe 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, “Nici”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.