Niesen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Nijs, a reduced form of Denijs (see Dennis)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnisən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Niesen is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- NLNetherlands
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from the personal name Nijs, a reduced form of Denijs (see Dennis).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Niesen 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 Dutch, metronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Agnes.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, to sneeze
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Variante im -sen/ -s- Umfeld; in der Eifel konzentriert. 463 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In Dutch, variant of Nies.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Georg Adam Niesenb. 1610DE(1610-1663)
- Johann Anton Niesenb. 1620DE(1620-1679)
- Georg Matthias Niesenb. 1683DE(1683-1747)
- Edward Niesenb. 1908USAmerican Jesuit missionary and priest (1908-1974)
- Gertrude Niesenb. 1911USAmerican torch singer, actress, comedian and songwriter (1911-1975)
- Josef Niesenb. 1963DEGerman author and painter
- Peter Niesenb. 1964DEGerman philosopher
- Paul Niesenphotographer
- Jitse NiesenGBresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-6693-3810
- Oliver NiesenDEGerman singer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,628 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 284 | #7,281 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 142 | #11,535 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Niesen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Nijs, a reduced form of Denijs (see Dennis). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Niesen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnisən/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Niesen?
- In the etymology graph, Sneeze is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Niesen have the most bearers?
- Niesen 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/niesenThe 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, “Niesen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.