Mamani
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a surname from Aymara
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mamani/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mamani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 33(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 144
- ARArgentina1 in 491
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.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- #467 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33 (inferred from the name graph)
≈360,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
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)
a surname from Aymara
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Mamani is read(measured from records)
Mamani is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish94%
a surname from Aymara
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Aymara18%
Empcyne o parte fupe rior del píe
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Mamani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BO Bolivia | #1 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 33 | — | Mamani | 83 |
| PE Peru | #11 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 144 | 1.1M | Mamani | 108 |
| AR Argentina | #89 | 92,620 | 1 in 491 | 93K | Mamani | 93 |
| CL Chile | #306 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Mamani | 72 |
| BR Brazil | #650 | 7,300 | 1 in 29K | 7.3K | Mamani | 59 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,341 | 1 in 15K | 3.3K | Mamani | 87 |
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: RENIEC — DNI population names; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Abdoulaye Mamanib. 1932NEPoet and novelist (1932-1993)
- Juan Luque Mamanib. 1959PEPeruvian politician
- Roberto Mamani Mamanib. 1962BOAymara Bolivian painter (born 1962)
- Elías Blanco Mamanib. 1962BOBolivian writer and journalist
- Carmen Garcíab. 1963BOnot in their usual nameBolivian politician (born 1963)
- Rosmery Mollob. 1970BOnot in their usual nameBolivian activist
- Freddy Mamanib. 1971BOBolivian architect
- Freddy Mamani Laurab. 1974BOBolivian educator and politician (born 1974)
- Wilma Alanocab. 1978BOnot in their usual nameBolivian journalist and politician
- Vidal Bascob. 1996BOnot in their usual nameBolivian long-distance runner
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 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 1.1M | #2 |
| PE Peru | RENIEC — Apellidos más frecuentes (national DNI bearer counts, 2025) | 2025 | 525K | #9 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 93K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 7.3K | #1,671 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.3K | #1,538 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.3K | #1,538 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Mamani mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Aymara Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mamani?
- A machine transcription gives /mamani/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Mamani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 357 thousand people named Mamani in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mamani.
- How common is the name Mamani?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 92,620 people named Mamani, about 1 in 491 residents.
- How common is Mamani compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Mamani is the most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mamani?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mamaniThe 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, “Mamani” — the most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.