Cavani

surname · Latin script

Meaning: var. regional de Cavanni

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

/kabani/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cavani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 262K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 11K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 57K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,100 people, est.

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

var. regional de Cavanni

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cavani 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 Cavani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈1,100 est.≈1 in 57K1Cavani18
BR Brazil8071 in 262K807Cavani61
UY Uruguay3031 in 11K303Cavani23
DZ Algeria≈230 est.≈1 in 186K—Cavani2
FR France≈150 est.≈1 in 445K8—1
PE Peru≈140 est.≈1 in 230K—Cavani33

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Cavani is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Cavanì, Câvàni, Càvani, Cavanî

  • French surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, Morocco, Algeria

    Also written Cãvàñî, Cãvãni, Čâvânĩ, Čãvãñį, Çâvâñî

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Çavañi, Cāvāni, Càvañi, Càvànì

41 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)

Cavani 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 Italian, Variante di Cavanna

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Guido Cavani, b. 1897Vasco Cavani, b. 1909Liliana Cavani, b. 1933Ernesto Filippi Cavani, b. 1950Marco Cavani, b. 1952Andrea Cavani, b. 1960Matteo Cavani, b. 1971Edinson Cavani, b. 1987

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Cavani,Dear Cavani, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Cavani,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Cavani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—807#11,191
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—303—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197110—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19918—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19615—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19415—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19315—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19514—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19214—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19813—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19011—

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

What does the name Cavani mean, and where does it come from?
var. regional de Cavanni Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Cavani?
A machine transcription gives /kabani/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Cavani have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Cavani in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cavani.
Where is Cavani most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cavani is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cavani?
In Brazil, the national register counted 807 people named Cavani, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.

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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, “Cavani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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