Nasi
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Cooked rice
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nasi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nasi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 159K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 7.2K
- FIFinland1 in 8.5K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Cooked rice.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nasi is read(measured from records)
Nasi is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English22%
Cooked rice.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nasi in Spanish.
- Hindi13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nasi in Hindi.
- Swahili5.8%
contraction of na sisi: and us, or with us
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nasi in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Nasi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 57K | listed | Nasi | 13 |
| FI Finland | 658 | 1 in 8.5K | 658 | Nasi | 3 |
| AL Albania | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 225 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 329K | — | Nasi | 9 |
| US United States | 296 | 1 in 1.1M | 319 | Nasi | 30 |
| AR Argentina | 286 | 1 in 159K | 286 | Nasi | 38 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Nasi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma plural de Naso
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In tft, alternative form of nanasi (“pineapple”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlm, rice in two senses: (i) as cooked in some particular way; and (ii) as the staple food of the Malays
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Dutch, Indonesian-style processed rice (mainly about fried rice in general)
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)
- Gracia Mendes Nasib. 1510PTPortuguese businesswoman
- João Miquezb. 1524PTnot in their usual nameOttoman Jewish statesman and financier
- Vincenzo Antonio Alamanni Nasib. 1679FRItalian apostolic nuncio
- Nunzio Nasib. 1850ITItalian politician (1850–1935)
- Carlo Nasib. 1877ITOlympic sailor (1877-1935)
- Guglielmo Nasib. 1879ITItalian general (1879-1971)
- Virgilio Nasib. 1880ITItalian politician
- Leonella Nasib. 1889ITItalian painter and illustrator (1889-1975)
- Raffaele Nasib. 1910ITItalian cross-country skier
- Simona Nasib. 1974ITItalian actress
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)
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 319 | #66,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 296 | #66,754 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 286 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 242 | #74,398 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 105 | #12,309 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 54 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Nasi mean, and where does it come from?
- Cooked rice. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nasi?
- A machine transcription gives /nasi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nasi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Nasi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nasi.
- How common is the name Nasi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 658 people named Nasi, about 1 in 8.5 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nasiThe 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, “Nasi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.