Nijaz
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/nʲɪjəs/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from нияз
Nijaz is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 2.6Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 8.3K
- HRCroatia1 in 36K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nijaz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 named Niyaz, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Нияз in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more and Niyaz in IN India, UZ Uzbekistan.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nijaz 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 | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 103 | Niyaz | 96 |
| RU Russia | #544 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | register #278 | Нияз | 137 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Niyaz | 4 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 53 | Нияз | 7 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 1.9K | Нияз | 38 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #202 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Nijaz | 17 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Нияз | 14 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 253 | 1 in 8.3K | 253 | Nijaz | 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.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; SURS — resident population given names. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nijaz Durakovićb. 1949BAMember of the Presidency of RBiH 1993-1996
- Nijaz Ferhatovićb. 1955BAYugoslav footballer
- Nijaz Lenab. 1986MKMacedonian footballer
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 264 | #417 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 262 | #416 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 258 | #424 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 255 | #434 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 254 | #438 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 253 | #446 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 248 | #899 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 236 | #430 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 224 | #420 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 224 | #409 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 221 | #430 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 218 | #422 |
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
- How do you pronounce Nijaz?
- In Russian /nʲɪjəs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Nijaz a male or female name?
- Nijaz is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Slovenia (SURS, 2025) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Nijaz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Niyaz in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nijaz?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 253 people named Nijaz in 2025, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Nijaz compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Nijaz is the 202nd most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nijazThe 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, “Nijaz” — the 202nd most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.