Numi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/njumi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Numi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 9.7K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.9M
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 Numi 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈74 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Numi 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 | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Numi | 7 |
| IS Iceland | 36 | 1 in 9.7K | 36 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Numi | 50 |
| BR Brazil | 28as Nuemi | 1 in 7.6M | 28 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | Numi | 8 |
| AU Australia | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Numi | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 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: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)
Numi is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Tongan, to tuck or pleat; to make a tuck or pleat in; a tuck or pleat
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ぬみ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of nūmus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tvl, tangled (of a line)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Māori, to bend, fold
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Samoan, to crumple
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Stefán Númi Stefánssonb. 1995ISIcelandic players of American football
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 7 | #27,806 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6 | #38,231 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #97,731 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Numi?
- A machine transcription gives /njumi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Numi a male or female name?
- Numi is a female 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.
- In which country does Numi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 people named Numi in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled numi.
- Where is Numi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Numi is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 9.7 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Numi?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 36 people named Numi in 2026, about 1 in 9.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Numi?
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/numiThe 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, “Numi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.