Nikšić

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Nikšić (a city and municipality of Montenegro)

/nikʂitɕ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nikšić is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 5.6K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 16K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

1,191 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NikšićLatin(measured from records)
НикшићCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Niksic in US United States, SI Slovenia, CA Canada.

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)

Nikšić (a city and municipality of Montenegro)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nikšić 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.

Where Nikšić is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#3801,1911 in 3.5K1.2KNikšić34
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#568≈690 est.≈1 in 5.6K—Nikšić11
RS Serbia#829≈440 est.≈1 in 16K—Nikšić21
US United States—1121 in 3M112Niksic14
CA Canada—≈45 est.≈1 in 842K—Niksic2
SI Slovenia—≈26 est.≈1 in 82K—Niksic4
ME Montenegro—≈14 est.≈1 in 44K—Nikšić2

1,191 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nikšić is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Nikšič, Niksić, Niksic

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Niksic, Niksić, Nikšic, Niksíc, Nikşiç

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Also written Niksic, Niksić

  • Hindi name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Niksic

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye

    Also written Niksic, Nikşiç

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Niksic

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

188019001920194019601980Ante Nikšić, b. 1892Radovan Nikšić, b. 1920Nermin Nikšić, b. 1960Damir Nikšić, b. 1970

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)

FormalPoštovani Nikšić,Dear Nikšić, (English)
InformalPoštovani Nikšić,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Nikšić
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.2K#423
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)20211K—

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Nikšić mean, and where does it come from?
Nikšić (a city and municipality of Montenegro) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Nikšić?
A machine transcription gives /nikʂitɕ/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Nikšić have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Nikšić, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nikšić.
Where is Nikšić most common?
Nikšić is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Nikšić?
In Croatia, the national register counted 1,191 people named Nikšić in 2021, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
How common is Nikšić compared with other names?
In Croatia, Nikšić is the 380th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nik%C5%A1i%C4%87

The 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, “Nikšić” — the 380th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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