Nì
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nì is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 16th most common given name. Recorded meaning: * (Chinese surname): Borrowed from Chinese 郳 (Ní), 倪 or 妮 (nī).
- VNVietnam≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GEGeorgia1 in 386as ნინი
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 831as Hnin
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 Nì 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nini in GE Georgia, CO Colombia, BR Brazil, Hnin in MM Myanmar (Burma), ID Indonesia and Nghệ in VN Vietnam.
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)
* (Chinese surname): Borrowed from Chinese 郳 (Ní), 倪 or 妮 (nī).
Sources 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nì 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈260,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | listed | Hnin | 178 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #16 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 831 | listed | Hnin | 76 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Nghệ | 93 |
| GE Georgia | #128 | 10,349as ნინი | 1 in 386 | 10K | Nini | 50 |
| CO Colombia | #578 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 7 | Nini | 82 |
| BR Brazil | — | 158 | 1 in 1.3M | 196 | Nini | 43 |
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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Nì 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 jpx-pro, burden, load
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Scottish Gaelic, future indicative independent of dèan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 伱
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, yes and no
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, defecate
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, urinate
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
- Zhou Yinot in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 103923
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nì mean, and where does it come from?
- * (Chinese surname): Borrowed from Chinese 郳 (Ní), 倪 or 妮 (nī). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Nì have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 259 thousand people named Nì in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hnin.
- How common is the name Nì?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 158 people named Nì in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Nì compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Nì is the 16th most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%ACThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nì” — the 16th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.