Sàni
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sàni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Nigeria it is the 33rd most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 467K(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1M
- FIFinland1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
749 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sani in NG Nigeria, US United States.
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)
1. Yapan, işleyen, meydana getiren. 2. Yaradan. 3. İkinci.4. Tanrı adlarındandır.
Sources 4
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sàni 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 749 | 1 in 283K | 1K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 713 | 1 in 467K | 747 | Sani | 198 |
| FI Finland | — | 535 | 1 in 10K | 530 | — | 9 |
| NG Nigeria | #33 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Sani | 108 |
| HR Croatia | — | 129 | 1 in 33K | 129 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 82 | 1 in 124K | 82 | — | 7 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 59 | 1 in 36K | 61 | — | 2 |
| AL Albania | — | 30 | 1 in 102K | 22 | — | — |
749 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sàni a male or female name?
- Sàni 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.
- In which country does Sàni have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 749 people named Sàni, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sàni most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sàni is densest in Finland — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sàni?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 749 people named Sàni in 2022, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
- How common is Sàni compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Sàni is the 33rd most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%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, “Sàni” — the 33rd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.