NäNi
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
NäNi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From nani (“beauty”). Also a short form of numerous female compound names ending in -nani.
- ARArgentina1 in 51K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 84K
- NONorway1 in 342K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
958 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Naeni in US United States and Ñanī in IN India.
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 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
NäNi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 958 | 1 in 1.4M | 958 | Ñanī | 73 |
| AR Argentina | 897 | 1 in 51K | 897 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 255 | 1 in 1.3M | 1.1K | Naeni | 227 |
| CH Switzerland | 100 | 1 in 84K | 100 | — | 9 |
| ES Spain | 96 | 1 in 521K | 97 | — | 24 |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 38 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 13 | — | — |
958 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling nani. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
NäNi 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 ote, water
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 NäNi 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.
- Is NäNi a male or female name?
- NäNi is a female 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 NäNi have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 958 people named NäNi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ñanī.
- Where is NäNi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, NäNi is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name NäNi?
- In India, the national register counted 958 people named NäNi, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A4niThe 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, “NäNi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.