Njie
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Njie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Madagascar than in any other country. In the Gambia it is the 3rd most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 398K(measured from records)
- GMGambia≈1 in 66
- MGMadagascar≈1 in 266
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.
- Madagascar (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 66 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Gambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Njie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MG Madagascar | #288 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 266 | — | Njie | 1 |
| GM Gambia | #3 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 66 | 6 | Njie | 66 |
| CM Cameroon | #975 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Njie | 16 |
| US United States | — | 836 | 1 in 398K | 1.2K | Njie | 182 |
| SE Sweden | — | 721 | 1 in 14K | 721 | Njie | 46 |
| NO Norway | — | 294 | 1 in 19K | 294 | Njie | 19 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Pierre Sarr N'Jieb. 1909GMnot in their usual nameGambian politician (1909-1993)
- Nancy Njieb. 1965GMGambian politician (1965–2025)
- Adama Njieb. 1978GMathletics competitor
- Haddy N'jieb. 1979NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian television presenter
- Lisa Aisato Njie Solbergb. 1981NONorwegian illustrator
- Clinton Njieb. 1993CMCameroonian professional footballer
- Faye Njieb. 1993FIFinnish judoka (1993-)
- Moussa Njieb. 1995NONorwegian footballer
- Sainey Njieb. 2001GMGambian footballer
- Alieu Njieb. 2005SESwedish footballer
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,223 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 836 | #28,525 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 721 | #1,357 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 404 | #48,963 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 294 | #5,232 |
| GM Gambia | IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022 | 2022 | 6 | #6 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Njie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 101 thousand people named Njie in Madagascar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled njie.
- How common is the name Njie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 836 people named Njie in 2010, about 1 in 398 thousand residents.
- How common is Njie compared with other names?
- In Madagascar, Njie is the 288th most common surname of 2,939 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/njieThe 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, “Njie” — the 288th most common surname in Madagascar. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.