Niner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Something nine inches long, or holding nine gallons, etc
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/naɪnəɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Niner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 697K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 697K (inferred from the name graph)
477 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Something nine inches long, or holding nine gallons, etc.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niner 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 477 | 1 in 697K | 545 | Niner | 24 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | Niner | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 142 | Niner | 4 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Niner | 3 |
477 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Niner 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.
Altered spelling of German Neuner.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 545 | #42,786 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 477 | #44,957 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 414 | #48,021 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 142 | #26,496 |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Niner mean, and where does it come from?
- Something nine inches long, or holding nine gallons, etc. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Niner?
- A machine transcription gives /naɪnəɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Niner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 477 people named Niner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled niner.
- Where is Niner most common?
- Niner is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 697 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Niner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 477 people named Niner in 2010, about 1 in 697 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ninerThe 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, “Niner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.