Niso
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/niso/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Niso is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin nīsus, alternative form of nīxus (“strain”, noun), derived from nītor (“to press forward, to advance”).
- UYUruguay≈1 in 1.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.6M
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.1M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
35 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Uruguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Latinnīsus(measured from records)
- Latin rootnītor“to press forward“to press forward, to advance”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Latin nīsus, alternative form of nīxus (“strain”, noun), derived from nītor (“to press forward, to advance”).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niso 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 35 | 1 in 6M | 64 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 1 | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 373 | Niso | 40 |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Niso | 8 |
| FR France | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | — | Niso | 29 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Niso | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 1 | Niso | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
35 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Niso 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, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of nīsus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, negative third-person plural present of bíti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In drn, fruit bat, flying fox
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Galician, in that
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, effort
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)
- Julia Guiomar Niso Galánb. 1985ESSpanish engineer and researcher (born 1985)
- Mauro Nisoresearcher
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 373 | #10,104 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 373 | #10,099 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 22 | #183,107 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Niso mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin nīsus, alternative form of nīxus (“strain”, noun), derived from nītor (“to press forward, to advance”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Niso?
- A machine transcription gives /niso/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Niso a male or female name?
- Niso is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Niso have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 35 people named Niso, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Niso?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 35 people named Niso in 2022, about 1 in 6.0 million 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/nisoThe 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, “Niso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.