Nigra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A black person
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nigra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 178K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.1M
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 178K (inferred from the name graph)
256 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A black person.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nigra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 256 | 1 in 178K | 256 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 201 | 1 in 1.1M | 201 | — | — |
| US United States | 141 | 1 in 2.4M | 167 | Nigra | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | 1 |
256 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Nigra 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 Italian, forma feminina de Nigro.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Negri
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Latin, inflection of niger:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, black
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Abula kreisā krasta pieteka Smiltenes un Valmieras novadā, garums - 25 km, kritums - 147 m; Blomupe; Labsne; Labzna; Lābzna
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Giovanni Nigrab. 1798ITItalian private banker and politician (1798-1865)
- Costantino Nigrab. 1828ITItalian diplomat and scholar (1828-1907)
- Gustavo Nigrab. 1847ITItalian politician
- Carlo Nigrab. 1856ITItalian architect (1856-1942)
- Jos Nigrab. 1950LULuxembourgian handball player
- Alberto Nigrab. 1964ITItalian politician
- Christina Nigrab. 1975USAmerican actress
- Vittoria NigraITItalian bookseller (fl. 1782-1821)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 256 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 201 | #36,677 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 167 | #100,194 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 143 | #125,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 141 | #122,314 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #87,548 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Nigra mean, and where does it come from?
- A black person. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nigra have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 256 people named Nigra, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nigra most common?
- Nigra is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 178 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nigra?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 256 people named Nigra, about 1 in 178 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nigraThe 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, “Nigra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.