Nič

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Slovak: nothing

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995

/ɲit͡ʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nič is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SKSlovakia1 in 40K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 62K
  • SISlovenia1 in 263K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

174 people

Record sources
22 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nic in US United States.

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)

second-person singular imperative of ničit

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Nič is read

(measured from records)

Nič is one spelling over 2 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.

  • Slovak49%

    nothing

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Czech42%

    second-person singular imperative of ničit

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Nič 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.

Where Nič is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia1741 in 62K174Nič22
SK Slovakia1361 in 40K136Nič14
US United States1081 in 3.1M2.8KNic6
PL Poland671 in 571K37——
SI Slovenia81 in 263K8—1

174 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Nič is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Khmer

    Also written Nic, Nij, Níc, Nìc, Ñíc

  • Russian given name84 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Ник, Nik, Nick, Хот, Никс

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Nic, Níc, Nīc

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Nič
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—174#9,715
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995136—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—8#21,902

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)

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

Where does the name Nič come from?
second-person singular imperative of ničit Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Nič?
A machine transcription gives /ɲit͡ʃ/ (IPA) for Slovak.
What does the name Nič mean?
In Slovak, nothing
In which country does Nič have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 174 people named Nič, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nič.
Where is Nič most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nič is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nič?
In Czechia, the national register counted 174 people named Nič, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.

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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, “Nič”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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