Avni
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Yardım ve yardımcılıkla ilgili
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/avn̪i/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Avni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Kosovo it is the 94th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 347
- ALAlbania1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Avni itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 347 (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Yardım ve yardımcılıkla ilgili.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Avni 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #600 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Avni | 64 |
| XK Kosovo | #94 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 347 | 6.1K | Avni | 5 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,036 | 1 in 1.5K | 2K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 1,634 | 1 in 204K | 1.4K | Avni | 48 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 1,175as Авни | 1 in 1.8K | 1.2K | Avni | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Avni | 8 |
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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; State Statistical Office — living population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hüseyin Avni Beyb. 1874MKOttoman military commander
- Aka Gündüzb. 1885TRnot in their usual nameTurkish politician and playwright (1885–1958)
- Avni Rustemib. 1895ALAlbanian politician (1895-1924)
- Avni Kurganb. 1910TRTurkish association football player (1910–1979)
- Avni Arbaşb. 1919TRTurkish artist (1919–2003)
- Avni Mulab. 1928ALAlbanian singer, musician (1928–2020)
- Avni Engüllüb. 1947MKTurkish journalist
- Avni Özgürelb. 1948TRTurkish journalist and screenwriter (born 1948)
- Awni Hassounehb. 1964JOnot in their usual nameJordanian association football referee
- Avni Pepab. 1988NOFootballer (born 1988)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 6.1K | #33 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2K | #195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #8,772 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1972 | 327 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1976 | 315 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1973 | 306 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 214 | #8,772 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 88 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 1 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Avni?
- A machine transcription gives /avn̪i/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Avni mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yardım ve yardımcılıkla ilgili.
- In which country does Avni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Avni in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled avni.
- Is Avni a male or female name?
- Avni is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Avni?
- In Albania, the national register counted 2,036 people named Avni, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Avni compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Avni is the 600th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/avniThe 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, “Avni” — the 600th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.