Ñee
surname · Latin script
Ñee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,000 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From French née, feminine of né, past participle of naître, to be born.
- BEBelgium1 in 95K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 111K
- SESweden1 in 134K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)
3,000 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nee in US United States, CL Chile, ES Spain.
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)From French née, feminine of né, past participle of naître, to be born.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ñee is found
(measured from records)Ñee 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,000 | 1 in 111K | 3K | Nee | 39 |
| BE Belgium | 123 | 1 in 95K | 123 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 76 | 1 in 134K | 76 | — | 1 |
| CL Chile | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 744K | — | Nee | 6 |
| ES Spain | 18 | 1 in 2.8M | 18 | Nee | 8 |
3,000 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)Ñee is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zap, foot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In omq-tel, salt
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ñee mean, and where does it come from?
- From French née, feminine of né, past participle of naître, to be born. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ñee?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Ñee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nee. After it come Belgium, Sweden, Chile and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ñee most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ñee is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 95 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ñee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,000 people named Ñee in 2010, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ñee?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B1eeThe 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, “Ñee” — ranked 10330th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.