Alani
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɫɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 165K(measured from records)
- IQIraq≈1 in 4.4K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 11K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iraq, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Al-Ani in IQ Iraq.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Alani, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Alani | 13 |
| IQ Iraq | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Al-Ani | 5 |
| US United States | 483 | 1 in 689K | 7.5K | Alani | 79 |
| AR Argentina | 275 | 1 in 165K | 275 | Alani | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 401K | listed | Alani | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 158 | 1 in 65K | 158 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 117 | 1 in 48K | 117 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 78 | 1 in 70K | 78 | — | 2 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Alani is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Alans (a Scytho-Sarmatian tribe dwelling near the river Tanais)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, terminative singular of ala
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, brown algae (Dictyota)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sarmatu izcelsmes nomadu ciltis, kas 1. gs. apmetās starp Donu un Kaukāzu, ap 375. g. pakļāva huņņi un lielas grupas devās uz Kaukāzu, Galliju un Pireneju pussalu
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)
- J.J. Alanib. 1965screenwriter
- Feurat Alanib. 1980FRFrench-Iraqi journalist (born 1980)
- Taric Alanib. 1985USAmerican pornographic actor
- Jumoke Alanib. 2005NGNigerian association football player
- Ibrahim Alanib. 2006NGNigerian footballer
- Vaja Alanivoice actress
- Rhoda M AlaniUSresearcher
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)
Attested in 55 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,367 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 483 | #44,500 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 288 | #64,572 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 275 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 50 | #12,710 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 40 | #29,803 |
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
- In which country does Alani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Alani in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alani.
- How common is the name Alani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 483 people named Alani in 2010, about 1 in 689 thousand residents.
- How do you pronounce Alani?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫɑni/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Alani?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alaniThe 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, “Alani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.