Nega

org · Latin script

Meaning: Siirya (N)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Nega is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia.

rarermore common
  • ETEthiopia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
81 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NegaLatin(measured from records)
ነጋEthiopic(measured from records)

Locally spelled ነጋ in ET Ethiopia.

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)

Siirya (N)

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nega counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Nega is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ET Ethiopia—listedነጋ27
US United States—393—81
BR Brazil—189——
PL Poland—141—16
NO Norway—66—3

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 2020; IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Nega is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Néga

  • Portuguese given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Chile

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Ñega, Nêga, Négá

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Néga, Négã, Negá

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Nĕgä

36 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Nega is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of negō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, care, nursing

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Filipino, pessimistic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, refusal

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, to deny

    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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Nega
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020393#56,219
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010328#61,297
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000278#66,476
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026141—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—141#22,639
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—118#55,876
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026116—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—116#26,207
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—66#21,356
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Nega mean, and where does it come from?
Siirya (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
In which country does Nega have the most bearers?
Nega is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled ነጋ.

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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, “Nega”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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