Nie Family Name and Heraldry

Nie and Nye are two spellings with one history. The family name meaning is “At the island”, the same as for Nye.

• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• Nie writes “i” in place of the “y” found in Nye, a common scribal difference.
• The 2010 US Census counted 1,725 people named Nie, ranking it number 16,624 among American surnames. It sits among the 25,000 most common last names in the country.
• Related forms: Ney.

Heraldry and the Nie name

Arms linked to Nye and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Nie surname pack.