Kâni
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Dokunaklı, iğneli söz söyleyen
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kâni is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 52K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 107K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
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
- 47 (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, MK North Macedonia, 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)Dokunaklı, iğneli söz söyleyen.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kâni 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 | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 196 | 1 in 52K | 196 | — | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 55 | 1 in 107K | 37 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 41 | 1 in 421K | 26 | Kani | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 25 | 1 in 2M | 25 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| MK North Macedonia | #335 | — | — | — | Kani | 3 |
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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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
- Is Kâni a male or female name?
- Kâni 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.
- What does the name Kâni mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dokunaklı, iğneli söz söyleyen.
- In which country does Kâni have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 772 people named Kâni, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kani.
- Where is Kâni most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kâni 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 Kâni?
- In the United States, the national register counted 772 people named Kâni in 2020, about 1 in 431 thousand residents.
- How common is Kâni compared with other names?
- In North Macedonia, Kâni is the 335th most common given name of 2,588 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kâni?
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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%A2niThe 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, “Kâni” — the 335th most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.