Afghani
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The monetary currency of Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/afɡhˈani/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Afghani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 77Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 230Kfew records
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)L’afghani est la principale unité monétaire de l’Afghanistan. Voir Afghan .
Cited for this meaning 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Afghani is read
(measured from records)Afghani is one spelling over 5 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%
The monetary currency of Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Afghani in Arabic.
- Indonesian14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Afghani in Indonesian.
- French9.1%
L’afghani est la principale unité monétaire de l’Afghanistan. Voir Afghan .
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- Pashto6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Afghani in Pashto.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Afghani 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 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 2 | Afghani | 6 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Afghani | 12 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Afghani | 16 |
| JO Jordan | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Afghani | 12 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Afghani | 19 |
| US United States | 129 | 1 in 2.6M | 129 | Afghani | 93 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Afghani | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Afghani 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 Italian, masculine plural of afghano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of afghanus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Mahmud al-Afghanib. 1912JOPalestinian poet
- Ali Mohammad Afghanib. 1925IRwriter
- Akbar Nikzad Afghanib. 1966AFAfghan singer
- Jamila Afghanib. 1976AFfeminist and women's rights activist in Afghanistan
- Kevin Afghanib. 1996USAmerican voice actor (born 1996)
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 129 | #131,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 124 | #139,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 114 | #135,837 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #29 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Afghani?
- In Indonesian /afɡhˈani/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Afghani mean?
- In English, The monetary currency of Afghanistan, divided into 100 pul.
- In which country does Afghani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Afghani in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled afghani.
- How common is the name Afghani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 129 people named Afghani in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/afghaniThe 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, “Afghani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.