Niak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: an East Asian or South Asian person;
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Niak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 66M(measured from records)
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 66M (inferred from the name graph)
20 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)an East Asian or South Asian person;
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Niak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 20 | 1 in 66M | 20 | Niak | 19 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Niak | 8 |
20 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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. 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)Niak 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 cdo, Ni&lc" A coll. word : to 、vink， to give the wink to ； tiasli- 、i uidJc) ni6k、 gave him a wink of the eye ； nek、 nck、 7i kikj vidJ" flashini^, bes))ani>led ； uiiXk^ 7ii<in(/^ the flash of liujhtniiii; ； vi<Xh\ ^li nidk^ k^6 * to place disorderly, to scatter about.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, startled
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 20 | #78,896 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #4,146 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #90,410 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #8,749 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #5,168 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Niak mean, and where does it come from?
- an East Asian or South Asian person; Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Niak have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 20 people named Niak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niak.
- Where is Niak most common?
- Niak is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 66 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Niak?
- In India, the national register counted 20 people named Niak, about 1 in 66 million residents.
What do you want to know about Niak?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niakThe 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, “Niak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.