Nicht
surname · Latin script
Meaning: not, non- (negates the meaning of a verb, adjective, or adverb)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nicht is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 148K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 208K
- PLPoland≈1 in 598K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 148K (inferred from the name graph)
≈540 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
not, non- (negates the meaning of a verb, adjective, or adverb)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 33 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nicht 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Nicht | 61 |
| PL Poland | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 598K | — | Nicht | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Nicht | 17 |
| US United States | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 15M | listed | Nicht | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Nicht | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | Nicht | 4 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Nicht 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 Dutch, niece, cousin
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Dutch, female cousin; daughter of someone's uncle or aunt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, alternative form of nikt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, night, evening
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In csb, nobody, no one
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)
- Wolfgang Nichtb. 1944DEDr. rer. nat. Technische Universität Dresden 1974
- Kristian Nichtb. 1982DEGerman footballer
- Christoph Nichtb. 1994ATAustrian footballer
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Nicht mean, and where does it come from?
- not, non- (negates the meaning of a verb, adjective, or adverb) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nicht have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 542 people named Nicht in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nicht.
- How common is the name Nicht?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 7 people named Nicht in 2024, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nicht?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nichtThe 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, “Nicht”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.