Nigger
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nigger is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A black person; a person of black African descent.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 90Mas Ниггер
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 Nigger 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈2 named Ниггер, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ниггер in RU Russia.
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)
A black person; a person of black African descent.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nigger 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 90M | — | Ниггер | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | — | 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Nigger is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, nigger; a dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, nigger (male or of unspecified gender)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, nigger, a variant of neger
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)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nigger mean, and where does it come from?
- A black person; a person of black African descent. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Nigger a male or female name?
- Nigger is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Nigger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2 people named Ниггер in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nigger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nigger is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 2.5 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nigger?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 2 people named Nigger, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niggerThe same 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), 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, “Nigger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.