Nisi
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: decree nisi
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nisi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nisi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 176K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 23K
- ALAlbania≈1 in 47K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma popular e coloquial, redução de Dionisi.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nisi is read(measured from records)
Nisi is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nisi in Spanish.
- English21%
decree nisi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian19%
forma popular e coloquial, redução de Dionisi.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nisi in French.
- Japanese7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nisi in Japanese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nisi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Nisi | 22 |
| IN India | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 6 | — | 8 |
| AR Argentina | 259 | 1 in 176K | 259 | Nisi | 32 |
| FR France | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 331K | 34 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Nisi | 28 |
| AL Albania | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 11 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 54 | 1 in 101K | 54 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 38 | 1 in 221K | 38 | — | 1 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Nisi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovenian, negative second-person singular present of bíti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, verbal noun of nesa: forgetting
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, if not, unless, except
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, island
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Nishi Amaneb. 1829JPnot in their usual nameJapanese philosopher and politician (1829–1897)
- Nishi Tokujirōb. 1847JPnot in their usual nameJapanese politician (1847–1912)
- Katsuzō Nishib. 1884JPnot in their usual nameJapanese aikidoka (1884-1959)
- Takeichi Nishib. 1902JPnot in their usual nameJapanese Army officer and equestrian (1902-1945)
- Rintarō Nishib. 1965JPnot in their usual nameJapanese voice actor
- Keiko Nishib. 1966JPnot in their usual nameJapanese manga artist
- Yoshiyuki Nishib. 1976JPnot in their usual nameJapanese manga artist
- Kanako Nishib. 1977JPnot in their usual nameJapanese writer
- Norihiro Nishib. 1980JPnot in their usual nameJapanese association football player
- Daigo Nishib. 1987JPnot in their usual nameJapanese association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 259 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 54 | #24,572 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 42 | #8,211 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 39 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 38 | #22,915 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 11 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- 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
- How do you pronounce Nisi?
- A machine transcription gives /nisi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Nisi mean?
- In English, decree nisi
- In which country does Nisi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Nisi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nisi.
- How common is the name Nisi?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 259 people named Nisi, about 1 in 176 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nisi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nisiThe 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, “Nisi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.