Ghàni
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ghàni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 51st most common surname. Recorded meaning: rich, wealthy, prosperous, all-sufficient; one of the names of Allah.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.3K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 21K
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 Ghàni 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈82,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ghani in MY Malaysia, PK Pakistan, US United States and 1 more, Goni in NG Nigeria, BD Bangladesh and Goñi in UY Uruguay.
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)
rich, wealthy, prosperous, all-sufficient; one of the names of Allah
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ghàni 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #114 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 5 | Ghani | 116 |
| BD Bangladesh | #99 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Goni | 65 |
| NG Nigeria | #493 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | listed | Goni | 40 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Ghani | 103 |
| MY Malaysia | #51 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Ghani | 92 |
| US United States | — | 1,179 | 1 in 282K | 1.4K | Ghani | 236 |
| UY Uruguay | #435 | 1,128as Goni | 1 in 3K | 1.1K | Goñi | 23 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ghàni mean, and where does it come from?
- rich, wealthy, prosperous, all-sufficient; one of the names of Allah Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and A Dictionary of Muslim Names and 1 other source.
- Is Ghàni a male or female name?
- Ghàni is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ghàni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Ghàni in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghani.
- How common is the name Ghàni?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,179 people named Ghàni in 2010, about 1 in 282 thousand residents.
- How common is Ghàni compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Ghàni is the 114th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gh%C3%A0niThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ghàni” — the 114th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.