Kàni
surname · Latin script
Kàni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: table Clipping of kaniini.
- USUnited States1 in 431K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 52K
- DKDenmark1 in 107K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
772 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kani in US United States, SE Sweden, NL Netherlands.
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)table Clipping of kaniini.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A Handbook of African Names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kàni 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 772 | 1 in 431K | 471 | Kani | 161 |
| SE Sweden | 196 | 1 in 52K | 196 | Kani | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 55 | 1 in 107K | 37 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 41 | 1 in 421K | 26 | Kani | 12 |
| ES Spain | 25 | 1 in 2M | 25 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 10 | 1 in 557K | 31 | — | 1 |
772 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 Kàni mean, and where does it come from?
- table Clipping of kaniini. Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Kàni have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 772 people named Kàni, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kani.
- Where is Kàni most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kàni is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 52 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kàni?
- In the United States, the national register counted 772 people named Kàni in 2020, about 1 in 431 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kàni?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%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, “Kàni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.