Nijole
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nijole is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 701(inferred from the name graph)
- LVLatvia1 in 22K
- ISIceland1 in 50K
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.
- Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 701 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nijole 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #205 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 701 | 21K | Nijole | 68 |
| US United States | — | 288 | 1 in 1.2M | 286 | Nijole | 55 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 653K | — | Nijole | 32 |
| LV Latvia | — | 87 | 1 in 22K | 88 | Nijole | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 44 | 1 in 1.1M | 44 | Nijole | 11 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Nijole | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 10 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 7 | 1 in 50K | 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: Registrų centras — top-50 given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Nijole is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nijolė Šivickasb. 1925COLithuanian sculptor
- Elena Nijolė Bučiūtėb. 1930LTLithuanian architect (1930-2010)
- Nijolė Sadūnaitėb. 1938LTLithuanian nun and dissident
- Nijolė Ambrazaitytėb. 1939LTopera singer and politician (1939-2016)
- Nijolė Lepeškaitėb. 1947LTLithuanian actor
- Nijolė Sabaitėb. 1950LTathletics competitor
- Nijolė Miliauskaitėb. 1950LTLithuanian poet
- Nijolė Oželytė-Vaitiekūnienėb. 1954LTSoviet and Lithuanian actress
- Nijolė Medvedevab. 1960LTSoviet and Lithuanian long jumper
- Nijolė Pareigytėb. 1984LTLithuanian singer
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 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 286 | #30,312 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 88 | #1,249 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 87 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 44 | #31,013 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 41 | #14,814 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 10 | #2,488 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #30,312 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
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
- Is Nijole a male or female name?
- Nijole 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 Nijole have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Nijole in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nijole.
- How common is the name Nijole?
- In the United States, the national register counted 288 people named Nijole in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Nijole compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Nijole is the 205th most common given name of 5,944 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/nijoleThe 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, “Nijole” — the 205th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.