Ninan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɲinən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ninan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Malayalam നൈനാൻ (naināṉ).
- USUnited States1 in 580K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 108K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 114K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 108K (inferred from the name graph)
754 people
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Malayalam നൈനാൻ (naināṉ).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ninan 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 | 754 | 1 in 1.8M | 754 | Ninan | 81 |
| US United States | 574 | 1 in 580K | 738 | Ninan | 177 |
| PE Peru | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Ninan | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 859K | 43 | Ninan | 57 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 426K | — | Ninan | 8 |
| AU Australia | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 475K | — | Ninan | 36 |
| IE Ireland | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Ninan | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Ninan | 1 |
754 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
- K.N. Ninanb. 1950KEIndian ecological economist (1950–)
- Reena Ninanb. 1979USAmerican television journalist
- Aparajita NinanINIndian illustrator and comics artist
- Philip NinanUSresearcher
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.1K | #549 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 754 | #6,793 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 738 | #33,269 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 574 | #38,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 391 | #50,261 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 43 | #55,819 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 36 | #7,556 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #111,065 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #4,790 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #2,548 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Ninan mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Malayalam നൈനാൻ (naināṉ). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Ninan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɲinən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ninan have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 754 people named Ninan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ninan.
- How common is the name Ninan?
- In India, the national register counted 754 people named Ninan, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ninanThe 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, “Ninan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.