Afghani

• Indonesian:/afɡhˈani/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

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 word·kaikki.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 name·2500 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Afghani is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Pashto surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Afghanistan, India, United Kingdom, United States

  Also written Afghānī

• Urdu surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United States, Afghanistan

  Languages: Urdu, Hindi

  Also written Afg̲h̲ānī

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Áfghani, Afg̲h̲ānī, Afghānī

• Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Afghānī, Åfghäñî

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

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 word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latin, inflection of afghanus:

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Ali Mohammad Afghanib. 1925IRwriter
• 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).

13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Afghani?

Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named Afghani in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled afghani. After it come Pakistan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.

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.