Nili
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nili is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 2.2Kas נילי(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 95Kas Nala
- XKKosovo≈1 in 465K
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 Nili 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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 465K (inferred from the name graph)
36,484 named Nela
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled נילי in IL Israel, US United States, RO Romania.
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)
Lacivert renkli.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nili 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 36,484as Nela | 1 in 293 | 36K | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 20,806as Nela | 1 in 1.8K | 21K | — | 2 |
| RO Romania | — | 10,783as Nela | 1 in 2K | 11K | נילי | 2 |
| IL Israel | #370 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 227 | נילי | 54 |
| US United States | — | 3,507as Nala | 1 in 95K | 24K | נילי | 94 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,445as Nela | 1 in 2.9K | 1.6K | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 465K | 48 | — | 1 |
36,484 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Nili is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, inflection of nīlus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, synonym of niliaitta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, your (plural)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, and adv.,very dark. Kpindi ya nili, com- pletely. Pélé hango nili
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Turkish, Lacivert renkli.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Nili Talb. 1944ILIsraeli journalist and documentary film director-producer (1944–2024)
- Nili Cohenb. 1947ILIsraeli jurist, university professor and researcher
- Nili Drorib. 1960ILIsraeli fencer
- Nili Abramskib. 1970ILIsraeli distance runner
- Nili Natchob. 1982ILIsraeli basketball player (1982–2004)
- Nili Margalitb. 1983ILIsraeli nurse
- Nili Broshb. 1988ILIsraeli-American guitarist
- Nili FellerILIsraeli film editor
- Nilli LavieILnot in their usual nameBritish psychologist
- Nili ShupaḳILIsraeli biblical scholar and Egyptologist
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 44 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 115 | #145,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 106 | #153,769 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #203,197 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #279,730 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Nili a male or female name?
- Nili 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 Nili have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Nela, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nili?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 36,484 people named Nela, about 1 in 293 residents.
- How common is Nili compared with other names?
- In Israel, Nili is the 370th most common given name of 107,303 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/niliThe 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, “Nili” — the 370th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.