Nini
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: NEET, neet
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nini/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nini is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 16th most common given name.
- COColombia≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- GEGeorgia1 in 386as ნინი
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 831as Hnin
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nini itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 named Ni, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hnin in MM Myanmar (Burma), ID Indonesia and Nghệ in VN Vietnam.
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)
probably from the Italian personal name Nino.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nini is read(measured from records)
Nini is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Spanish22%
NEET, neet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
Alternative form of night night.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Georgian14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nini in Georgian.
- French12%
a diminutive of the female given name Virginie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nini in Indonesian.
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)
Nini 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Hnin | 178 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #16 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 831 | listed | Hnin | 76 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Nghệ | 93 |
| GE Georgia | #128 | 10,349as ნინი | 1 in 386 | 10K | Nini | 50 |
| CO Colombia | #578 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 7 | Nini | 82 |
| DK Denmark | — | 295 | 1 in 20K | 295 | — | 1 |
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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nini is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, probably from the Italian personal name Nino.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, forma plural de Nino.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
West African: 'stone'
as a nameAfrican Names
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)
- Nini Roll Ankerb. 1873NONorwegian novelist/playwright (1873-1942)
- Nini Theiladeb. 1915IDDanish ballet dancer (1915-2018)
- Nini Bulterijsb. 1929BEBelgian composer
- Nini Janetb. 1935GRGreek actress
- Nini Stoltenbergb. 1963NONorwegian TV host (1963–2014)
- Nini Wacerab. 1978KEKenyan actor
- Nini Bull Robsahmb. 1981NONorwegian actress and film director
- Nini Tsiklaurib. 1992DEGerman actress
- Ouyang Ninib. 1996TWTaiwanese actress
- Nini Nebieridzeactress
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)
Attested in 62 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 295 | #796 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 7 | #114 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Nini come from?
- probably from the Italian personal name Nino. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Nini mean?
- In Spanish, NEET, neet
- How do you pronounce Nini?
- A machine transcription gives /nini/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Nini a male or female name?
- Nini is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Nini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 259 thousand people named Ni in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nini?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 295 people named Nini, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Nini compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Nini is the 16th most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nini?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niniThe 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, “Nini” — the 16th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.