Begani
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Begani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 227K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 1.5M
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 227K (inferred from the name graph)
116 people
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Begani 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 116 | 1 in 11M | 116 | Begani | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 37 | 1 in 227K | 37 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
116 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Orsini Beganib. 1874author (1874-)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Begani have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 116 people named Begani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled begani.
- Where is Begani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Begani is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 227 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Begani?
- In India, the national register counted 116 people named Begani, about 1 in 11 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beganiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Begani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.