Niet
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: not, no, don't: used to express negation
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Niet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 909K(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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 909K (inferred from the name graph)
19 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
not, no, don't: used to express negation.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
How Niet is read(measured from records)
Niet is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Dutch45%
not, no, don't: used to express negation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Niet in English.
- German9.5%
rivet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish8.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Niet in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 19 | 1 in 909K | 19 | Niet | 10 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Niet | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | Niet | 10 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Niet | 22 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Niet | 7 |
| VE Venezuela | — | — | — | Niet | 7 |
19 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Niet 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 Khmer, n, chief, head; protector; honorific title. (S. Pa. n a t h a ‘protector.’ ) SlftSllJ queen, p rin c ess. S19
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In ang, third-person singular present indicative of nīedan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, night
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Khmer, n, dance, dancing, ballet. (S. nata ‘dance, dancing.’)
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 19 | #51,099 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Niet mean, and where does it come from?
- not, no, don't: used to express negation. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Niet?
- A machine transcription gives /ni/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- What are other forms of the name Niet?
- In the etymology graph, Nieten is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Niet have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 19 people named Niet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niet.
- Where is Niet most common?
- Niet is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 909 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Niet?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 19 people named Niet in 2007, about 1 in 909 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nietThe 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, “Niet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.