Niala

surname · Latin script

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

Niala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 2.2M(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)

599 people

Sources
23 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.2M (inferred from the name graph)

India

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nyala in FR France.

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)

Niala 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 Niala is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India5991 in 2.2M599—2
PH Philippines———Niala23
US United States——243Niala15
FR France———Nyala14
ES Spain———Niala4
BR Brazil——42—18

599 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)

Niala is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, France, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Nïala

38 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)

Niala is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, nyala (Tragelaphus angasii)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Niala
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—599#8,061
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—33#10,634
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—13#14,841

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Niala have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 599 people named Niala, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Niala most common?
Niala is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Niala?
In India, the national register counted 599 people named Niala, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.

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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, “Niala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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