Nivar
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nibaɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nivar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Nívar. This surname is mostly found in the Dominican Republic.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 544K
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 118K
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.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Nívar. This surname is mostly found in the Dominican Republic.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nivar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #221 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Nivar | 37 |
| US United States | — | 611 | 1 in 544K | 723 | Nivar | 139 |
| IN India | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | 1 | Nivar | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 167 | 1 in 299K | 167 | Nivar | 36 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Nivar | 16 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Nivar | 7 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)
Nivar 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.
In io, to snow
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)
- Ramón Nivarb. 1980DODominican Republic baseball 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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 723 | #33,851 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 611 | #36,585 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 392 | #50,178 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 167 | #18,920 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 167 | #18,862 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #105,140 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Nivar mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Nívar. This surname is mostly found in the Dominican Republic. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Nivar?
- A machine transcription gives /nibaɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Nivar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Nivar in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nivar.
- How common is the name Nivar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 611 people named Nivar in 2010, about 1 in 544 thousand residents.
- How common is Nivar compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Nivar is the 221st most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nivarThe 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, “Nivar” — the 221st most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.