Nine
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized spelling of German Nein or Neun, from Middle High German niun ‘nine’ (see Neuner)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nine is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 205 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Americanized spelling of German Nein or Neun, from Middle High German niun ‘nine’ (see Neuner).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nine counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1.3K | Nine | 205 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Nine | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5 | Nine | 43 |
| BR Brazil | — | 97 | Nine | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1.1K | — | 31 |
| FR France | — | 915 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 225 | — | 17 |
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 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Nine is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Aleppo, Buenos Aires
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In French, Diminutif d’Anne, d’origine hébraïque, « grâce ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, French diminutive form, often from names ending in -nine (e.g., Aline, Pauline).
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, adj., tau
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)
- Daoud Shakurb. 1893BRnot in their usual nameHomsi writer and poet
- Nine Moatib. 1937FRFrench writer (1937–2021)
- Carlos Nineb. 1944ARArgentinian sculptor
- Assata Shakurb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
- Afeni Shakurb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican political activist (1947–2016)
- Tupac Shakurb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (1971–1996)
- Lucas Nineb. 1975ARillustrator, graphic novelist, animated film director
- Mustafa Shakurb. 1984USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1984)
- Nikki Nineb. 1988USAmerican pornographic actress
- Malik Shakurnot in their usual nameactor
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 40 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Nine mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of German Nein or Neun, from Middle High German niun ‘nine’ (see Neuner). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Nine have the most bearers?
- Nine is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled nine.
What do you want to know about Nine?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nineThe 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, “Nine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.