Nijole
given name · Lithuanian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nijole is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and English, written in the Latin script.
- LTLithuania1 in 129◐
- LVLatvia1 in 22K
- ISIceland1 in 50K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈22K ●
- Sources
- 63 ●
- 1 in 129 ◐
across 9 countries
1.6K records
Official registry-verified
Lithuania
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #96 | 21,196△ | 936 rec. | 1 in 129 | 21K | Nijole | 63 |
| US United States | — | 286 | 413 rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 286 | Nijole | 54 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 130 | 83 rec. | — | — | Nijole | 29 |
| LV Latvia | — | 87△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 22K | 88 | Nijole | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 44 | 40 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 44 | Nijole | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 21 | 0 rec. | 1 in 486K | 21 | Nijole | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 16 | 12 rec. | — | — | Nijole | 11 |
| IE Ireland | — | 16 | 17 rec. | — | — | Nijole | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 14 | — | 1 in 2.7M | 14 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 12 | — | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | 12 | 13 rec. | — | — | Nijole | 3 |
| PA Panama | — | 12 | 12 rec. | — | — | Nijole | 1 |
Roughly 21K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 129). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Lithuanian44K93%
- English2K4%
- Spanish2691%
- Norwegian Bokmål2021%
- German1731%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lithuanian | 44,256 | 93% |
| English | 2,013 | 4% |
| Spanish | 269 | 1% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 202 | 1% |
| German | 173 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Nijole is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 13 |
| 2010 | 12 |
| 2011 | 13 |
| 2012 | 13 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 13 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 16 |
| 2018 | 16 |
| 2019 | 16 |
| 2020 | 16 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 13 years between 2008–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nijolė Šivickasb. 1925COLithuanian sculptor
- Elena Nijolė Bučiūtėb. 1930LTLithuanian architect (1930-2010)
- Nijolė Sadūnaitėb. 1938LTLithuanian nun and dissident
- Nijolė Ambrazaitytėb. 1939LTopera singer and politician (1939-2016)
- Nijolė Lepeškaitėb. 1947LTLithuanian actor
- Nijolė Sabaitėb. 1950LTathletics competitor
- Nijolė Miliauskaitėb. 1950LTLithuanian poet
- Nijolė Oželytė-Vaitiekūnienėb. 1954LTSoviet and Lithuanian actress
- Nijolė Medvedevab. 1960LTSoviet and Lithuanian long jumper
- Nijolė Pareigytėb. 1984LTLithuanian singer
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●
Attested in 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 286 | #30,312 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 202 | #4,769 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 88 | #1,249 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 87 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 44 | #31,013 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 41 | #14,814 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #18,974 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #24,162 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 16 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 45 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nijole?
- We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Nijole (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nijole have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 21 thousand people bear Nijole in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nijole.
- Where is Nijole most common?
- Nijole is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 129 people carrying it.
- How common is Nijole compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Nijole is the 96th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
- Is Nijole a male or female name?
- Nijole is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Nijole” — the 96th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.