Nikiwe
given name · Latin script
Meaning: She is a gift to us
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nikiwe is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in South Africa.
- ZASouth Africa
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
no count published
Community-sourced
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
She is a gift to us.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nikiwe 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | — | Nikiwe | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | — | listed | — | — |
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: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the african-book-names-hodari-2003 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2011 | 1 | — |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nikiwe mean, and where does it come from?
- She is a gift to us. Recorded by The African book of names.
- Is Nikiwe a male or female name?
- Nikiwe 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 Nikiwe have the most bearers?
- Nikiwe is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled nikiwe.
What do you want to know about Nikiwe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nikiweThe 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, “Nikiwe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.