Nàni
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nàni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From nani (“beauty”). Also a short form of numerous female compound names ending in -nani.
- ALAlbania1 in 192K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 214K
- USUnited States1 in 283K
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)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- 1 in 192K (inferred from the name graph)
1,174 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
19 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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)
From nani (“beauty”). Also a short form of numerous female compound names ending in -nani.
Sources 5
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nàni 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.
1,174 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SURS — resident population given names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Nàni 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 unm, that one (animate), that person
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nàni mean, and where does it come from?
- From nani (“beauty”). Also a short form of numerous female compound names ending in -nani. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Nàni have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Nàni, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nàni most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nàni is densest in Albania — about 1 in 192 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nàni?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,174 people named Nàni in 2020, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%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, “Nàni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.