Čani
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Čani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 72K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 105K
- SISlovenia1 in 131K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
1,077 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cani in US United States, SI Slovenia.
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)do lat. canis; apelativo ligado à fidelidade do cão ou a canus, encanecido
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Čani is found
(measured from records)Čani 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 | 1,077 | 1 in 197K | 1.1K | — | — |
| US United States | 146 | 1 in 2.3M | 198 | Cani | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 80 | 1 in 105K | 80 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 77 | 1 in 591K | 77 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 76 | 1 in 134K | 76 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 59 | 1 in 72K | 59 | Čani | 9 |
| SI Slovenia | 16 | 1 in 131K | 16 | Cani | 1 |
1,077 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Čani is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Indiāņu cilts Dienvidamerikā, pieder pie tupogvaranu dienvidu zara - gvaraniem, runā tupogvaranu saimes gvarani valodā, gk. animistiski ticējumi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Lazi - gruzīnu etnogrāfiska grupa
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Čani?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Čani, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Switzerland, Argentina and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Čani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čani is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Čani?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,077 people named Čani, about 1 in 197 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/%C4%8DaniThe 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, “Čani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.