Nyama
surname · Latin script
Meaning: meat
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɲama/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nyama is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
- PLPoland1 in 7.7M
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)
7 people
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
meat
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nyama 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | Nyama | 8 |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | Nyama | 2 |
7 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Nyama 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.
restraining; controlling
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Sun.
as a nameThe African book of names
In ki, meat, flesh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lingala, animal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, nyamanga, n., judge. Nyama héwuru
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #205,349 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nyama mean, and where does it come from?
- meat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nyama?
- A machine transcription gives /ɲama/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Nyama have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 7 people named Nyama, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nyama most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nyama is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.1 million people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nyama?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7 people named Nyama, about 1 in 7.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nyamaThe 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, “Nyama”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.