Nalis
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/nalis/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Nalis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 121K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 467K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)
37 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
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)Nalis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 37 | 1 in 467K | 37 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 35 | 1 in 121K | 35 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | Nalis | 13 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Nalis | 14 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Nalis | 2 |
37 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Nalis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, complete aspect of malis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Antun Nalisb. 1911HRCroatian actor (1911–2000)
- Daniel Nalisb. 1947FRFrench politician
- Lilian Nalisb. 1971FRFrench football manager (born 1971)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 37 | #37,078 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 35 | #16,747 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 33 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Nalis?
- In Indonesian /nalis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Nalis have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 37 people named Nalis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nalis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nalis is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 121 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nalis?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 37 people named Nalis in 2007, about 1 in 467 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nalis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nalisThe 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, “Nalis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.