Tehrani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A native or resident of the city of Tehran (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Tehrani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,266 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Tehrani is also written Терані in Cyrillic.
- NONorway1 in 58K(measured from records)
- IRIran≈1 in 140K
- CACanada≈1 in 140K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
1,266 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Tehrani in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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 native or resident of the city of Tehran.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Tehrani is found
(measured from records)Tehrani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,266 | 1 in 263K | 1.3K | Tehrani | 237 |
| IR Iran | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Tehrani | 61 |
| DE Germany | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Tehrani | 87 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Tehrani | 73 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 302K | 207 | Tehrani | 89 |
| NO Norway | 94 | 1 in 58K | 94 | Tehrani | 10 |
| SE Sweden | 58 | 1 in 176K | 58 | Tehrani | 31 |
| DK Denmark | 31 | 1 in 189K | 31 | — | — |
1,266 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mojtaba Tehranib. 1933IRIranian cleric (1933–2013)
- Hassan Tehrani Moghaddamb. 1959IRIranian brigadier general (1959–2011)
- Mehdi Mirzamehdi Tehranib. 1970IRIranian journalist and veteran of the Iran-Iraq War
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tehrani mean, and where does it come from?
- A native or resident of the city of Tehran. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tehrani?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Tehrani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tehrani. After it come Iran, Germany, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Tehrani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tehrani is densest in Norway — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tehrani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,266 people named Tehrani in 2010, about 1 in 263 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tehrani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tehraniThe 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, “Tehrani” — ranked 20533rd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.