Nyi
given name · Burmese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nyi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is the 27th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Burmese and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Abbreviation of New York Islanders.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)1 in 4.9K◐
- IDIndonesia1 in 33K
- MYMalaysia1 in 47K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈178 ●
- Sources
- 78 ●
- 1 in 1.9M ◐
across 3 countries
5.3K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
Abbreviation of New York Islanders.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #27 | 5,758 | 1.4K rec. | — | listed | Nyi | 78 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 2,768 | 323 rec. | — | listed | Nyi | 71 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,387 | 689 rec. | — | — | Nyi | 26 |
| TH Thailand | — | 660 | 266 rec. | — | — | Nyi | 45 |
| SG Singapore | #898 | 522 | 788 rec. | — | — | Nyi | 26 |
| US United States | — | 173 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 173 | Nyi | 77 |
| AU Australia | — | 167 | 199 rec. | — | — | Nyi | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 97 | 110 rec. | — | — | Nyi | 17 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 21 | 49 rec. | — | — | Nyi | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | 17 | 22 rec. | — | — | Nyi | 15 |
| IT Italy | — | 16 | 23 rec. | — | — | Nyi | 4 |
| IN India | — | 16 | 6 rec. | — | — | Nyi | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Burmese7.5K57%
- Indonesian2.9K22%
- English8667%
- Thai7125%
- Malay1861%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Burmese | 7,483 | 57% |
| Indonesian | 2,905 | 22% |
| English | 866 | 7% |
| Thai | 712 | 5% |
| Malay | 186 | 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●
Nyi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lao, 1. v. contract, tighten. 2. v. cluster, group together. P. : 1
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
In lmy, Short form of the third-person singular independent pronoun nyiyo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, inflection of nykiä:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Igbo, weighty, heavy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In njz, person, human
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●
Attested in 9 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 173 | #38,539 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #38,539 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #49,175 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #44,487 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #12,706 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #17,825 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 1 | #35 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | Myanmar romanized given names (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nyi?
- We estimate roughly 178 people bear Nyi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nyi have the most bearers?
- Nyi is most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is most often spelled nyi.
- How common is Nyi compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Nyi is the 27th most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.
- Is Nyi a male or female name?
- Nyi is a male 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.
- What does the name Nyi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Abbreviation of New York Islanders.
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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, “Nyi” — the 27th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-09-12.