Nefissa

Name: Nefissa: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nefissa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country.

rarermore common

TNTunisia≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
DZAlgeria≈1 in 342K
FRFrance≈1 in 572K

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.

: Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 81 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Néfissa

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)

Nefissa 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 Nefissa is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
TN Tunisia	≈220 est.	≈1 in 55K	—	Nefissa	4
DZ Algeria	≈130 est.	≈1 in 342K	listed	—	4
FR France	≈120 est.	≈1 in 572K	—	Nefissa	81
CA Canada	≈3 est.	≈1 in 14M	—	Nefissa	4
GY Guyana	1	1 in 750K	1	—	—

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: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the dz-kaggle-names 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nefissa is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Arabic given name2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria
Also written Néfissa
Spanish given name4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Tunisia
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Néfissa
a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Néfissa

18 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Nefissa
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
GY Guyana	Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025	2025	1	#593
DZ Algeria	Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT)	—	—	—

Reference works 1

Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

Is Nefissa a male or female name?: Nefissa 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 Nefissa have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 215 people named Nefissa in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nefissa.
How common is the name Nefissa?: In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Nefissa in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand 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/nefissa

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 2026-10-10 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, “Nefissa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)