Anania
surname · Latin script
Meaning: graça de Deus; Greece
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɑˈnɑniə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anania is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 491K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 9K
- ITItaly≈1 in 46K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
graça de Deus; Greece
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anania 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 1 | Anania | 17 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | Anania | 22 |
| ET Ethiopia | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 1 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 677 | 1 in 491K | 677 | Anania | 189 |
| AR Argentina | 373 | 1 in 122K | 373 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 79 | 1 in 106K | 79 | Anania | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 53 | 1 in 64K | 53 | — | — |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Students of the World is a platform providing cultural insights since 1995.. 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)
Anania 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, do nome hebr. Hananyah, 'Deus se compadeceu'
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Russian, var of Ananiia.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Giovanni Lorenzo d'Ananiab. 1545ITItalian geographer and theologian
- Bartolomeu Ananiab. 1921RORomanian Orthodox bishop, translator, writer and poet (1921–2011)
- George Ananiab. 1941ROscience fiction writer (1941-2013)
- Maurizio Ananiab. 1969ITItalian film director, screenwriter, actor and author
- Luca Ananiab. 1980ITItalian footballer
- Matteo Ananiab. 1984ITItalian association football player
- Giulia Ananiab. 1984ITItalian writer
- Gino Ananiaactor
- Marcello AnaniaRoman Catholic bishop
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 47 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 677 | #33,645 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 673 | #32,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 637 | #37,540 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 373 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 79 | #13,215 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 53 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Anania?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑˈnɑniə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Anania mean, and where does it come from?
- graça de Deus; Greece Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Anania have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Anania in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anania.
- How common is the name Anania?
- In the United States, the national register counted 677 people named Anania in 2010, about 1 in 491 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ananiaThe 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, “Anania”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.