Nieve
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: snow
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/njebe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nieve is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 7.2K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 19K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
2,348 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant form of nief
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nieve is read(measured from records)
Nieve is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish85%
snow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.2%
variant form of nief
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Spanish 'snow'
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Nieve, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nieve 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #691 | 2,348 | 1 in 7.2K | 2.3K | Nieve | 22 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #375 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Nieve | 15 |
| AR Argentina | #981 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 910 | Nieve | 43 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 515 | 1 in 56K | 515 | Nieve | 16 |
| US United States | — | 476 | 1 in 699K | 457 | Nieve | 82 |
| NI Nicaragua | #453 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Nieve | 6 |
| PY Paraguay | #790 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Nieve | 12 |
2,348 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Nieve is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lad, alternative form of inyeve
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, fist
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)
- Nives Kavurić-Kurtovićb. 1938HRnot in their usual nameCroatian painter (1938–2016)
- Nives Marinšekb. 1957SInot in their usual nameSlovene lawyer
- Nives Meroib. 1961ITnot in their usual nameItalian mountaineer
- Nives Widauerb. 1965CHnot in their usual nameSwiss artist and photographer
- Nives Ivankovićb. 1967HRnot in their usual nameCroatian actress
- Nives Celzijusb. 1981HRnot in their usual nameCroatian socialite, model, singer and writer
- Berónica Viviecab. 1990DOnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Nives VišnarSInot in their usual nameresearcher
- Nives SuličSInot in their usual nameSlovenian researcher
- Nives LenassiSInot in their usual nameresearcher
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 910 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 488 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 203 | #85,643 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 192 | #100,469 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 181 | #99,845 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 10 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 are other forms of the name Nieve?
- In the etymology graph, Neus and Nives are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Nieve mean?
- In Spanish, snow
- Where does the name Nieve come from?
- variant form of nief Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nieve?
- A machine transcription gives /njebe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Nieve a male or female name?
- Nieve is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nieve have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Nieve, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nieve.
- How common is the name Nieve?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 2,348 people named Nieve in 2024, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Nieve compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Nieve is the 691st most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nieve?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nieveThe 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, “Nieve” — the 691st most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.