Nda
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 325K(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 1.5K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 28K
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled N'Da in CI Côte d’Ivoire, FR France, BJ Benin.
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)
Nda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 12K | N'Da | 16 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Nda | 28 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Nda | 9 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 395K | — | Nda | 3 |
| FR France | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 325K | 6 | N'Da | 103 |
| GH Ghana | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Nda | 7 |
| BJ Benin | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 1 | N'Da | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 63 | 1 in 3.4M | 63 | — | — |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Assemblee Nationale du Benin — sitting-MP roster, 9eme legislature (2023-2028). 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)
Nda is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kr, conj. then, pray (Germ, tocb.) nddgU, pron. how much? how many
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In dag, bm 1. an eruption on the body 2. a blister
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In sga, alternative spelling of ndá: eclipsed form of da (“two”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbc, no, not (used in tag questions to elicit an affirmative reply)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In English, Initialism of non-disclosure agreement.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xbr, particle of negation
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 63 | #89,008 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Nda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Nda in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled n'da.
- How common is the name Nda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 63 people named Nda, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ndaThe 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, “Nda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.