Nieder
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nieder is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 161.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nieder counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 599 | — | 19 |
| BR Brazil | — | 23 | — | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 17 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 14 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 13 | — | 3 |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Nieder is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from the place name Nieda/Nieda in Silesia
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
topographic name for someone who lived at the lower end of a settlement, from Middle High German nider, German nieder ‘lower’, or a habitational name from any of many places called Nied (in Hesse), Niede, or Nidda.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, name for someone who lived at the lower end of a settle¬ ment, from Ger. nieder lower (MHG nider, OHG nidar). In some cases it may have referred to someone who lived on the lower floor of a house of two or more storeys.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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)
- Bill Niederb. 1933USAmerican shot putter (1933–2022)
- Peter Niederb. 1947DEGerman economist and university teacher
- Fabio Niederb. 1957ITcomposer, pianist, conductor with dual Italian and German citizenship
- Dietmar Niederb. 1960DEGerman actor
- Andreas Niederb. 1968DEresearcher
- Felix Niederb. 1993DEGerman model, author
- Timo O. NiederDEGerman psychologist and scientist
- Jana B NiederDEresearcher
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 599 | #39,592 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 598 | #37,288 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 586 | #36,129 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #177,962 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14 | #114,673 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Nieder come from?
- Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 161. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- What does the name Nieder mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type.
- In which country does Nieder have the most bearers?
- Nieder is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niederThe 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, “Nieder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.