Neki
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
Neki is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ALAlbania1 in 6.2K(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 12K
- SISlovenia1 in 421K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Neki 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.
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); SURS — resident population given names. 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)Neki 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 Hungarian, to/for him/her
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ppl, to want
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In srn, neck
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, some
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)- Neki Frashërib. 1952ALAlbanian mathematicians
- Neki Adipib. 1984FRFrench Guiana footballer
- Neki StarovaALAlbanian politician
- Neki DredhaALAlbanian politician
- Neki RamINrecipient of Shaurya Chakra
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 495 | #953 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 239 | #1,898 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1980 | 10 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1975 | 10 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1974 | 10 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1977 | 8 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1969 | 8 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1966 | 7 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1973 | 6 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1972 | 6 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1964 | 6 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Is Neki a male or female name?
- Neki is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Albania (INSTAT Albania) and Kosovo (ASK Kosovo).
- In which country does Neki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Neki in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neki.
- Where is Neki most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Neki is densest in Albania — about 1 in 6.2 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Neki?
- In Albania, the national register counted 495 people named Neki, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Neki?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nekiThe 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, “Neki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.