Niijima
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Niijima is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese 新島 (Niijima).
- PHPhilippines
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 新島 (Niijima).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niijima counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | Niijima | 6 |
| PH Philippines | — | Niijima | 3 |
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.
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)
- Joseph Hardy Neesimab. 1843JPnot in their usual nameJapanese missionary (1843-1890)
- Niijima Yaeb. 1845JPJapanese former soldier and nurse
- Niijima Yoshinaob. 1871JPJapanese entomologist
- Masako Niijimab. 1916JPJapanese teacher (1916-2014)
- Tsuneo Niijimab. 1955JPJapanese farmer, amateur astronomer
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Niijima mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 新島 (Niijima). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Niijima have the most bearers?
- Niijima is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled niijima.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niijimaThe 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, “Niijima”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.