Names of Nauru NR

Names in Nauru are recorded in na and English, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.

Written in na, English.

Population
11K
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
166
BBuilt from 1 official register, 166 name forms in our corpus, 4 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Nauru

2 naming traditions are in use in Nauru, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Nauru

Scripts & spelling

Hessonsurname●
Hussellsurname●
Spadersurname●
Fettysurname●
Boésurname●
The best-attested names in Nauru, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

The Latin alphabet here is not the ASCII one. Stripping diacritics merges names that are not the same name and changes how they are pronounced, and a record that has been ASCII-folded has lost information no amount of guessing recovers.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • Nauru Electoral Commission — Voter Registration Notifications (Government Gazette 2024-2025)not a population count

    Nauru Electoral Commission / Republic of Nauru Government Gazette. Counts: registered voters. given and surname. 666 forms. Licence: Open government data.

    What we know about this register

    33 voter-roll gazette notices (REGISTRATION/AUTO ENROLMENT + TRANSFER OF REGISTRATION) scraped from gazette-2024/2025 index pages, filtered by GENDER|FAMILY NAME|REGISTERED NAME|DISTRICT table signature. 1,458 elector records -> 1,275 given(token,sex) + 520 surname(token,sex) freq rows. First new coverage for NR. Candidate/withdrawal notices (<10 names) skipped. surname=FAMILY NAME, given=first REGISTERED NAME token; sex from GENDER column.

    Last verified 2026-07-02.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there one naming system in Nauru?
No — 2 are described on this page (Nauruan, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Nauru”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/NR (data snapshot 2026-09-12).