Osmani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɔsmˈani/(machine-generated) Albanian · model-generated
Osmani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common surname. Osmani is also written Османи in Cyrillic.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 310few records(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 640few records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Osmani itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 306 (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Osmani 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.
How to pronounce Osmani
- Albanian:/ɔsmˈani/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a surname originating as a patronymic
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Osmani is found
(measured from records)Osmani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #65 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 644 | — | Osmani | 27 |
| XK Kosovo | #22 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 306 | — | Osmani | 10 |
| MK North Macedonia | #117 | 4,741as Османи | 1 in 448 | 4.7K | Osmani | 23 |
| DZ Algeria | #809 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Osmani | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | #595 | 3,380 | 1 in 2.5K | 3.4K | Osmani | 32 |
| SI Slovenia | #35 | 266 | 1 in 7.9K | 266 | Osmani | 5 |
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: State Statistical Office — living population names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the dz-kaggle-names register; 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)Osmani 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 Finnish, An Osman, an archaic name for Turks.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Augšdaugavas novada Naujenes pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Ļumeniški" bijušais nosaukums
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Esma Sultanb. 1778TRnot in their usual namedaughter of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid I (1778–1848)
- Sofia Osmanib. 1979DKMayor in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality
- Vjosa Osmanib. 1982XKPresident of the Republic of Kosovo since 2021
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)50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Osmani mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Osmani?
- In Albanian /ɔsmˈani/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Osmani?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Osmani in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osmani. After it come Kosovo, North Macedonia, Algeria and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Osmani?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3,380 people named Osmani in 2024, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Osmani compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Osmani is the 65th most common surname of 11,723 surnames 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/osmaniThe 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, “Osmani” — the 65th most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.