Nima Surname
Approximately 26,549 people bear this surname
Nima Surname User-submission:
Nima is a Persian surname, which came from north county, Mazandaran. It is a name of one mountain in that area, which means 'half', and also 'star light' too.
Nima Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peru | 8,028 | 1:3,959 | 651 |
| India | 4,066 | 1:188,654 | 11,451 |
| Thailand | 3,343 | 1:21,130 | 1,811 |
| Iran | 2,510 | 1:30,591 | 3,697 |
| Ethiopia | 1,610 | 1:60,588 | 6,165 |
| Indonesia | 1,079 | 1:122,566 | 12,350 |
| Bangladesh | 991 | 1:160,804 | 5,900 |
| Togo | 630 | 1:11,504 | 2,968 |
| Papua New Guinea | 600 | 1:13,590 | 1,266 |
| Bhutan | 532 | 1:1,158 | 118 |
| Chad | 481 | 1:28,258 | 3,335 |
| DR Congo | 410 | 1:180,194 | 18,301 |
| Kenya | 388 | 1:119,020 | 9,982 |
| Ghana | 346 | 1:78,094 | 7,799 |
| Morocco | 204 | 1:169,000 | 29,345 |
| Nigeria | 202 | 1:876,944 | 38,283 |
| Uganda | 202 | 1:193,264 | 15,695 |
| Benin | 140 | 1:73,826 | 8,856 |
| China | 113 | 1:12,100,191 | 733 |
| Djibouti | 100 | 1:9,149 | 584 |
| United States | 83 | 1:4,366,975 | 231,516 |
| Canada | 51 | 1:722,463 | 57,796 |
| Iraq | 47 | 1:745,142 | 10,632 |
| Niger | 38 | 1:505,053 | 13,208 |
| Israel | 38 | 1:225,201 | 21,188 |
| Russia | 34 | 1:4,238,913 | 201,756 |
| Brazil | 29 | 1:7,381,874 | 170,034 |
| Malaysia | 24 | 1:1,228,926 | 53,021 |
| Pakistan | 20 | 1:8,932,194 | 45,447 |
| Sweden | 19 | 1:518,250 | 37,550 |
| Maldives | 18 | 1:22,454 | 1,401 |
| Tanzania | 16 | 1:3,308,851 | 50,463 |
| Afghanistan | 15 | 1:2,143,546 | 15,005 |
| Chile | 13 | 1:1,355,113 | 23,887 |
| England | 11 | 1:5,065,278 | 148,650 |
| Hungary | 7 | 1:1,402,325 | 60,133 |
| Venezuela | 7 | 1:4,314,868 | 39,591 |
| Ivory Coast | 6 | 1:3,845,205 | 48,272 |
| Austria | 5 | 1:1,703,087 | 89,702 |
| Ecuador | 5 | 1:3,181,169 | 27,617 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 1:2,290,568 | 60,372 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1:7,713,954 | 37,548 |
| Greece | 4 | 1:2,769,948 | 101,568 |
| Algeria | 4 | 1:9,657,888 | 64,782 |
| Cameroon | 4 | 1:5,192,267 | 135,173 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| Namibia | 3 | 1:803,134 | 15,170 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Solomon Islands | 2 | 1:290,014 | 19,875 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Nepal | 2 | 1:14,240,478 | 17,812 |
| Georgia | 2 | 1:1,872,772 | 35,618 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1:103,477 | 2,586 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Liberia | 1 | 1:4,408,535 | 47,110 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Mauritania | 1 | 1:4,094,863 | 38,869 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
Nima (221,626) may also be a first name.
Nima Surname Meaning
User-submitted Reference
Nima is a Persian surname, which came from north county, Mazandaran. It is a name of one mountain in that area, which means 'half', and also 'star light' too.
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Nima Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nima Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nima (Arabic: عنيمي, Bengali: নিমা, Georgian: ნიმა, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻧﻴﻤﺎ, Hindi: नीमा, Marathi: नीमा, Oriya: ନିମା, Russian: Нима, Tibetan: ཉི་མ་) is held by more people in Peru than any other country or territory. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Nima? popularity and diffusion
The last name Nima is the 20,594th most frequent last name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 274,494 people. The surname Nima occurs mostly in Asia, where 48 percent of Nima live; 31 percent live in South Asia and 30 percent live in Andean South America. It is also the 4,711th most commonly occurring first name world-wide, held by 221,626 people.
The surname Nima is most frequent in Peru, where it is borne by 8,028 people, or 1 in 3,959. In Peru Nima is most numerous in: Piura Region, where 78 percent live, Lima Province, where 11 percent live and Tumbes Region, where 3 percent live. Aside from Peru this surname occurs in 91 countries. It also occurs in India, where 15 percent live and Thailand, where 13 percent live.
Nima Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Nima has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Nima surname grew 2,075 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Nima Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is principally Orthodox (60%) in Ukraine.
In The United States Nima are 18.2% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 71.43% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Nima earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 35.93% less than the national average, earning S/. 12,420 per year; in United States they earn 38.5% more than the national average, earning $59,762 USD per year and in Canada they earn 82.09% more than the national average, earning $90,469 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Nima Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Nima in the Georgian language | ||
| ნიმა | nima | - |
| Nima in the Marathi language | ||
| नीमा | nima | 95.24 |
| िनिमष | inimasa | 4.76 |
| Nima in the Bengali language | ||
| নিমা | nima | 85 |
| নীমা | nima | 10 |
| নিম | nima | 5 |
| Nima in the Hindi language | ||
| नीमा | nima | 81.46 |
| निमा | nima | 18.31 |
| नीमाा | nimaa | 0.02 |
| णिमा | nima | 0.01 |
| गीता | gita | 0.01 |
| न्ईमा | nima | 0.01 |
| Nima in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཉི་མ་ | nyima | 73.74 |
| ཉི་མ། | nyima | 24.54 |
| ཉི་མ | nyima | 0.65 |
| ཉིམ་ | nyim | 0.48 |
| ཉི་མ་། | nyima | 0.14 |
| ཉིད་མ། | nyima | 0.08 |
| ཉིམ། | nyim | 0.08 |
| ཉིད་མ་ | nyima | 0.08 |
| ཉི་་མ། | nyima | 0.03 |
| ཉེི་མ་ | nyéma | 0.03 |
| ཉ་ི་མ་ | nyama | 0.03 |
| ཉི་མ་་ | nyima | 0.03 |
| ཉིམ་མ། | nyimma | 0.03 |
| ཉི་ལ། | nyila | 0.03 |
| ཉིམ་མ་ | nyimma | 0.03 |
| Nima in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻧﻴﻤﺎ | nyma | 73.08 |
| ﻧﻌﻤﻪ | nmh | 7.69 |
| ﺍﻟﻨﻴﻤﻪ | alnymh | 7.69 |
| ﺍﻟﻨﻌﻤﻪ | alnmh | 7.69 |
| ﻧﻌﻢ | nm | 3.85 |
| Nima in the Oriya language | ||
| ନିମା | nima | 69.53 |
| ନିମ | nima | 18.49 |
| ନୀମା | nima | 7.29 |
| ନୀମ | nima | 2.34 |
| ନମ | nama | 0.26 |
| ନାମା | nama | 0.26 |
| Nima in the Russian language | ||
| Нима | nima | - |
| Nima in the Arabic language | ||
| عنيمي | nymy | - |
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