Agni
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Agni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Akan/Agni (Côte d’Ivoire): a people and language; also Sanskrit/Latin-derived fire deity name.
- NPNepal≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 52K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 67K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Akan/Agni (Côte d’Ivoire): a people and language; also Sanskrit/Latin-derived fire deity name
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Agni 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 112 | 1 in 1.9M | 112 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 113 | Agni | 56 |
| SE Sweden | 42 | 1 in 243K | 42 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 839K | — | Agni | 8 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 29 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 16 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Agni is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, Agni, a Hindu and Vedic deity of fire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, Agni (a deity of fire)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Agni the Deva; name of many men (P);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
god of fire
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In Faroese, dative singular indefinite of agn
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)
- Agni Kreinb. 1915NONorwegian author
- Agni Sapkotab. 1960NPNepali politician
- Agni Pratisthab. 1988AUIndonesian actress and model
- Agni BethaniBEparticle physicist at Université catholique de Louvain
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 113 | #146,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 107 | #151,639 |
| 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
- What does the name Agni mean, and where does it come from?
- Akan/Agni (Côte d’Ivoire): a people and language; also Sanskrit/Latin-derived fire deity name Recorded by African Names.
- Is Agni a male or female name?
- Agni is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Agni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Agni in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Agni?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 112 people named Agni in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agniThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Agni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.