Nife
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Cordial
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nife is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 40K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 199K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Cordial.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nife 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 199K | listed | Nife | 19 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 230 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 77 | 1 in 40K | 77 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Nife | 44 |
| PH Philippines | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Nife | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | — | Nife | 6 |
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: the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Nife is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, 4. cf hyerehyere-fam\ kes6-fam* (Exe.20,46), po-fam\ *anigyefo, pi. a-, one that rejoices. Bo. 12,16. [epom
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In English, The innermost layers or core of the Earth, composed chiefly of nickel and iron.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jmd, kind of large snake
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Romanian, barysphere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mte, snake
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 230 | #1,951 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 77 | #3,313 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1958 | 10 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1957 | 8 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1948 | 7 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1969 | 6 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1967 | 6 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1966 | 6 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1968 | 5 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1961 | 5 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1960 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nife mean, and where does it come from?
- Cordial. Recorded by The African book of names.
- Is Nife a male or female name?
- Nife 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 Nife have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Nife in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nife.
- How common is the name Nife?
- In Albania, the national register counted 77 people named Nife, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nife?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nifeThe 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, “Nife”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.