Nanï

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nanï is a female given name 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.

rarermore common
  • 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)

1,174 people, 2020

Record sources
121 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 192K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

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.

Cited for this meaning 5

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Nanï 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.

Where Nanï is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,1741 in 283K1.1K—30
BR Brazil2261 in 937K255——
ES Spain971 in 516K97—12
PL Poland581 in 660K56——
SE Sweden321 in 319K32—5
FI Finland261 in 214K44——
AL Albania161 in 192K13——
SI Slovenia61 in 350K6—1

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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Nanï is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Georgia, Taiwan

    Languages: Hindi, Georgian, Chinese

    Also written Nani, ნანი, Nan, Nan-I, Nanì

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Nānī, Nani

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nanï under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nanï 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 Nanï a male or female name?
Nanï 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 Nanï have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Nanï, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Nanï most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nanï 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 Nanï?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,174 people named Nanï in 2020, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.

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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, “Nanï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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