Niessner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Dentale Konsonantenvariation ss/ß; Belege 281+316 (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ŋjessneɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Niessner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 56Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 100K
- CZCzechia1 in 165K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Niessner itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈810 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
How to pronounce Niessner
- Spanish:/ŋjessneɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Dentale Konsonantenvariation ss/ß; Belege 281+316.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where the surname Niessner is found
(measured from records)Niessner 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.
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 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Wolfgang Nießnerb. 1953ATnot in their usual namecomposer and music teacher
- Andrea Nießnerb. 1955ATnot in their usual nameAustrian physiotherapist
- Matthias Niessnerb. 1986DEGerman computer scientist
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Niessner mean, and where does it come from?
- Dentale Konsonantenvariation ss/ß; Belege 281+316. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
- How do you pronounce Niessner?
- In Spanish /ŋjessneɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Niessner?
- Mondonomo estimates about 813 people named Niessner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niessner. After it come United States, Austria, Czechia and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Niessner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 191 people named Niessner in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niessnerThe 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, “Niessner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.