Nosa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: What God has said
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/noʊsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nosa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 9.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- SDSudan≈1 in 16K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
What God has said.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nosa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | listed | Nosa | 74 |
| SD Sudan | #941 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Nosa | 6 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 337K | 1 | Nosa | 14 |
| US United States | — | 182 | 1 in 1.8M | 145 | Nosa | 131 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 536K | 7 | Nosa | 75 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Nosa | 12 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Nosa 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 fax, feminine singular of nosu (“our”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, to sniff (especially of an animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of nos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mrw, (< ?) island in Lake Lanao
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of nos
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)
- Djineeb. 1962NGnot in their usual nameNigerian Singer, Producer And TV presenter
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Nosa mean, and where does it come from?
- What God has said. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Nosa?
- A machine transcription gives /noʊsə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Nosa a male or female name?
- Nosa 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 Nosa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Nosa in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nosa.
- How common is the name Nosa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 182 people named Nosa in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Nosa compared with other names?
- In the Sudan, Nosa is the 941st most common given name of 4,989 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nosa?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nosaThe 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, “Nosa” — the 941st most common given name in Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.