Family name カニ (Kani 
, カニ ) , throughout the world, is a common last name. The family name カニ is characteristic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare surname, United Arab Emirates, and Kosovo. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia. More prevalently, カニ is the forename as well as the last name.