Njie

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Njie is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In the Gambia it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 176K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 398K
  • GMGambia1 in 37

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.7K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
166 ●

9.7K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 14K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Njie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom—1,319895 rec.——Njie81
US United States—8365.9K rec.1 in 398K1.2KNjie166
SE Sweden—721599 rec.1 in 14K721Njie51
DE Germany—519530 rec.——Njie58
ES Spain—437△152 rec.1 in 114K437Njie24
GM Gambia#3376417 rec.—6Njie63
NO Norway—294△51 rec.1 in 19K294Njie26
FI Finland—152△17 rec.1 in 37K152—11
IT Italy—135144 rec.——Njie15
CM Cameroon#689113185 rec.——Njie17
CH Switzerland—89△12 rec.1 in 94K89Njie6
DK Denmark—74—1 in 79K74——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English7.2K43%
  • Spanish1.5K9%
  • Swahili1.4K8%
  • French1K6%
  • German8085%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English7,19943%
Spanish1,5459%
Swahili1,3638%
French1,0326%
German8085%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Njie is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3.5K records spelled Njie11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, France, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, French, Catalan

    Also written N'Jie, N''Jie, N-Jie, N’jie, N'Jié

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Pierre Sarr N'Jie, b. 1909Nancy Njie, b. 1965Adama Njie, b. 1978Haddy N'jie, b. 1979Lisa Aisato Njie Solberg, b. 1981Clinton Njie, b. 1993Faye Njie, b. 1993Moussa Njie, b. 1995Sainey Njie, b. 2001Alieu Njie, b. 2005

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 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Njie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.2K#22,223
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010836#28,525
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—721#1,357
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—437#8,909
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—437#8,892
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000404#48,963
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—294#5,232
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—152#14,246
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202489#12,103
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—87—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—74#7,330
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200728#42,354

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Njie?
We estimate roughly 2.7 thousand people bear Njie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Njie have the most bearers?
Njie is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled njie.
How common is Njie compared with other names?
In the Gambia, Njie is the 3rd most common surname of 152 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Njie” — the 3rd most common surname in Gambia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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