Niyaz
given name · Latin script
Meaning: the act of begging, beggary
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɲijaz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Niyaz is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 62K(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 9.4Kas Нияз
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 9.7Kas Нияз
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 Niyaz 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 named Нияз, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Нияз in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more and Nijaz in BA Bosnia & Herzegovina, SI Slovenia.
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)
the act of begging, beggary
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Niyaz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #544 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | #278 | Нияз | 137 |
| PK Pakistan | #351 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 62K | listed | Niyaz | 20 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Niyaz | 2 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Niyaz | 4 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 53 | Нияз | 7 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 1.9K | Нияз | 38 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #202 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Nijaz | 17 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Нияз | 14 |
| US United States | — | 334as Niaz | 1 in 996K | 340 | Niyaz | 67 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 253as Nijaz | 1 in 8.3K | 253 | Nijaz | 3 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; SURS — resident population given names. 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)
Niyaz 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 Turkish, 1. Yalvarma, yakarma. 2. İstek, arzu. 3. Dua.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
; offering to a saint,
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Kurdish, Desire, supplication, one representing sincere longing and spiritual devotion
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Arabic, gift
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Niyaz Ahmedb. 1971INIndian professor of microbial sciences
- Niyaz Bilalovb. 1994RURussian judoka (1994-)
- Niyaz Ilyasovb. 1995RURussian judoka (1995-)
- Niyaz Ağazadəb. 1996AZAzerbaijani sport shooter
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Niyaz a male or female name?
- Niyaz is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Niyaz mean, and where does it come from?
- the act of begging, beggary Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Niyaz?
- A machine transcription gives /ɲijaz/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Niyaz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10.0 thousand people named Нияз in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Niyaz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 334 people named Niaz in 2020, about 1 in 996 thousand residents.
- How common is Niyaz compared with other names?
- In Russia, Niyaz is the 544th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Niyaz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niyazThe 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, “Niyaz” — the 544th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.