Ni

At the 2020 census, 7,267 Americans bore the surname Ni — 4,723rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 41,100.

By the numbers

People: 7,267
Rank: 4,723rd
How common: 1 in 41,100
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ni described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.1%
White, not Hispanic 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.1%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Ni

Ni Zan (1306–1374)Chinese painter
Xia Lian Ni (born 1963)Luxembourgian table tennis player
Ni Ni (born 1988)Chinese actress
Xiong Ni (born 1974)Chinese sport diver
Ni Yulan (born 1961)Chinese human rights activist
Ni Hong (born 1986)Chinese fencer
Yan Ni (born 1987)volleyball player
Ni Kuang (1935–2022)Hong Kong writer

People named Ni with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ni

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.