Niski
surname · Latin script
Meaning: low, short (situated close to, or even below, the ground; not high or lofty)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɲiskʲi/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Niski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 61K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 141K
- NONorway1 in 911K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
623 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)low, short (situated close to, or even below, the ground; not high or lofty)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Niski 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 623 | 1 in 61K | 560 | — | — |
| US United States | 178 | 1 in 1.9M | 181 | Niski | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 34 | 1 in 6.2M | 34 | Niski | 25 |
| UY Uruguay | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | Niski | 8 |
| NO Norway | 6 | 1 in 911K | 6 | — | — |
623 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Niski is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In szl, low, short (situated close to, or even below, the ground or another normal reference plane; not high or lofty)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hsb, low (low in height)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, nape (of the neck)
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)- Grzegorz Niskib. 1949PLPolish politician
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Niski mean, and where does it come from?
- low, short (situated close to, or even below, the ground; not high or lofty) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Niski?
- In Polish /ɲiskʲi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Niski have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 623 people named Niski, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Niski most common?
- Niski is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 61 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Niski?
- In Poland, the national register counted 623 people named Niski in 2026, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niskiThe 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, “Niski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.