Nîc
surname · Latin script
Nîc is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of nicotine.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 29K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 30K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 374 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nic in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 6 more.
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)
Clipping of nicotine.
Sources 2
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nîc 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Nic | 15 |
| US United States | — | 3,328 | 1 in 100K | 2.8K | Nic | 374 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Nic | 112 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Nic | 177 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 8 | Nic | 202 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Nic | 24 |
| NZ New Zealand | #720 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Nic | 100 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Nic | 34 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Nic | 40 |
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). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nîc mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping of nicotine. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Nîc have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Nîc in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nic.
- How common is the name Nîc?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,328 people named Nîc in 2020, about 1 in 100 thousand residents.
- How common is Nîc compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Nîc is the 720th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%AEcThe 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, “Nîc” — the 720th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.