Šani

given name · Latin script

Meaning: tauta Mjanmas (Birmas) ziemeļaustrumos un kaimiņrajonos Taizemē, valoda pieder pie sinotibetiešu saimes taju grupas, reliģija - budisms (hinajana)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Šani is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • XKKosovo≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FIFinland1 in 10K
  • HRCroatia1 in 33K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šani itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

16,117 named Sunny, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Kosovo, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ŠaniLatin(measured from records)
СаниCyrillic(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sunny in US United States, Sani in HR Croatia and Сани in MK North Macedonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Latvian

tauta Mjanmas (Birmas) ziemeļaustrumos un kaimiņrajonos Taizemē, valoda pieder pie sinotibetiešu saimes taju grupas, reliģija - budisms (hinajana)

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šani counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Šani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—16,117as Sunny1 in 21K11KSunny25
BR Brazil—1,060as Sany1 in 200K1.1K——
FI Finland—5351 in 10K530—2
XK Kosovo#936≈470 est.≈1 in 4.1K113Šani1
SE Sweden—237as Sunny1 in 43K237—4
HR Croatia—1291 in 33K129Sani21
MK North Macedonia#814115as Сани1 in 18K93Сани5

16,117 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); State Statistical Office — living population names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Šani is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Latvian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Sani

  • Slovak given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Türkiye, India

    Also written Sani, Šaňi, Şani, Šaní

  • Albanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Nigeria

    Also written Sani

  • Arabic given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sweden, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic

    Also written Sani, ሳኒ, ሰኒ, Seni, Saani

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Šani is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, šīs tautas grupa, kas dzīvo gk. Mjanmas Šanas / Tai pavalstī

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Šani under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Šani mean?
Recorded meaning: tauta Mjanmas (Birmas) ziemeļaustrumos un kaimiņrajonos Taizemē, valoda pieder pie sinotibetiešu saimes taju grupas, reliģija - budisms (hinajana)
Is Šani a male or female name?
Šani is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Šani have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Sunny, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Šani?
In Finland, the national register counted 535 people named Šani, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
How common is Šani compared with other names?
In North Macedonia, Šani is the 814th most common given name of 2,588 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Šani” — the 814th most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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