Names of Niue NU

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

Written in English, niu.

Population
2K
DBuilt from 10 cited works.

No name data for this country beyond its languages.

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 Niue

2 naming traditions are in use in Niue, 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 Niue

Every record we hold for Niue — 0 name forms across historical registers, the diaspora and several decades of births. Not a census.
#NameEstimated bearersHow common

No official register

We have not found a published name register for Niue at an authority tier we would headline. The ranking above is our record corpus, and it is labelled as such. If you publish or know of a register for this country, we would like to hear about it.

Registers & sources

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 Niue?
No — 2 are described on this page (Western Polynesian Outlier, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

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