Nija
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Siva (N) (Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
Nija is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 20K(measured from records)
- LTLithuania≈1 in 210K
- INIndia≈1 in 260Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Siva (N)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nija 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 261K | 1 | Nija | 31 |
| US United States | 743 | 1 in 448K | 675 | Nija | 162 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | listed | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | 106 | 1 in 20K | 111 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Nija | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Nija | 1 |
| LT Lithuania | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 215K | listed | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 7 | 1 in 269K | 7 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the lt-vlkk-vardai register; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 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)Nija 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 cni, water
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
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.
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nija mean, and where does it come from?
- Siva (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Is Nija a male or female name?
- Nija is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Slovenia (stat.si Imena rojstva).
- Which countries have the most people named Nija?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Nija in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nija. After it come United States, Pakistan, Slovenia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nija most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nija is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nija?
- In the United States, the national register counted 743 people named Nija in 2020, about 1 in 448 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nijaThe 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, “Nija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.