NeiN
surname · Latin script
Meaning: unexplained. Perhaps from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with an element cognate with Old High German niuwi ‘new’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈnin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
NeiN is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 300K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 706K
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 300K (inferred from the name graph)
471 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)unexplained. Perhaps from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with an element cognate with Old High German niuwi ‘new’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)NeiN 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 471 | 1 in 706K | 504 | NeiN | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | 28 | 1 in 300K | 28 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | — | 1 | NeiN | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | — | — | — | NeiN | 3 |
471 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling nein. 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)NeiN is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bar, nine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, faîte, panne de faîtage
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- Scott Neinb. 1951USAmerican politician
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 504 | #45,684 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 472 | #43,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 471 | #45,412 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 28 | #28,759 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #371,286 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name NeiN mean, and where does it come from?
- unexplained. Perhaps from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with an element cognate with Old High German niuwi ‘new’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce NeiN?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnin/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does NeiN have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 471 people named NeiN, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled NeiN.
- Where is NeiN most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, NeiN is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 300 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name NeiN?
- In the United States, the national register counted 471 people named NeiN in 2010, about 1 in 706 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about NeiN?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neinThe 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, “NeiN”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.