Nisay
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nisay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 177Kas หนูสาย(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 8.5Kas Näsi
- KHCambodia≈1 in 89Kas Nisai
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 Nisay 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
658 named Näsi
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Näsi
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled นิสัย in TH Thailand and Nisai in US United States.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nisay 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 658as Näsi | 1 in 8.5K | 658 | — | 1 |
| TH Thailand | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 177K | #287,577 | นิสัย | 34 |
| US United States | 296as Nasi | 1 in 1.1M | 319 | Nisai | 7 |
| AR Argentina | 286as Nasi | 1 in 159K | 286 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 256as Nasi | 1 in 827K | 256 | — | — |
| KH Cambodia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 1 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 16as Nasi | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | 2 |
658 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); A collection of 72 Cambodian baby names with their meanings from FirstCry.. 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 3 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- In which country does Nisay have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 658 people named Näsi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nisay most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Nisay itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 8.5 thousand people named Näsi.
- How common is the name Nisay?
- In Finland, the national register counted 658 people named Näsi, about 1 in 8.5 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nisay?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nisayThe 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, “Nisay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.