Afi
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of American Film Institute
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɑfi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Afi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Togo than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 595K(measured from records)
- TGTogo≈1 in 484
- GHGhana≈1 in 47K
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.
- Togo (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 484 (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of American Film Institute.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Afi is read(measured from records)
Afi is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English29%
Initialism of American Film Institute.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Afi in Indonesian.
- French15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Afi in French.
- Turkish14%
1. Silen. 2. Silinmiş. 3. Affeden, bağışlayan. 4. Affedilmiş, bağışlanmış. 5. Yalvaran.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Afi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TG Togo | #254 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 484 | 16 | Afi | 17 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 277K | listed | Afi | 20 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Afi | 17 |
| GH Ghana | #480 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Afi | 35 |
| US United States | — | 559 | 1 in 595K | 510 | Afi | 156 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 28 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 5 | 1 in 150K | 5 | — | 1 |
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; the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Afi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Born on Friday
as a nameThe book of African names
Spiritual
as a nameThe book of African names
Kofi Bom on Friday
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
Spiritual things.
as a nameThe African book of names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 510 | #19,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49 | #19,105 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 28 | #5,407 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 16 | #9 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 6 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 5 | #589 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 5 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1957 | 2 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Afi mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of American Film Institute. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Afi?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑfi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Afi a male or female name?
- Afi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Afi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Afi in Togo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled afi.
- How common is the name Afi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 559 people named Afi in 2020, about 1 in 595 thousand residents.
- How common is Afi compared with other names?
- In Togo, Afi is the 254th most common given name of 1,075 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/afiThe 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, “Afi” — the 254th most common given name in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.