Nïss
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nïss is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ornamental name from Yiddish dialect nis ‘nut’ (cognate with German Niiss-, see 1).
- DKDenmark1 in 35K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 330Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 370K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Niss in US United States, DE Germany, SE Sweden and 2 more.
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)ornamental name from Yiddish dialect nis ‘nut’ (cognate with German Niiss-, see 1).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nïss 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Niss | 47 |
| US United States | 242 | 1 in 1.4M | 266 | Niss | 134 |
| FR France | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 369K | 10 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 169 | 1 in 35K | 169 | — | 2 |
| MA Morocco | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Niss | 9 |
| AT Austria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Niss | 21 |
| SE Sweden | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 167 | Niss | 10 |
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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nïss mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name from Yiddish dialect nis ‘nut’ (cognate with German Niiss-, see 1). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Nordic Names.
- Is Nïss a male or female name?
- Nïss is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nïss have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 255 people named Nïss in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niss.
- Where is Nïss most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nïss is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nïss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 242 people named Nïss in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%AFssThe 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, “Nïss”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.