Azania

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Azania is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: East African: ancient name for the east coast of East Africa; name for South Africa.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 146K
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.2M

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.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈570 people, est.

Sources
100 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

East African: ancient name for the east coast of East Africa; name for South Africa

Sources 1

  • African Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Azania 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.

Where Azania is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈570 est.≈1 in 100K—Azania16
TZ Tanzania≈400 est.≈1 in 146K—Azania7
US United States≈78 est.≈1 in 4.3M6Azania100
NG Nigeria≈30 est.≈1 in 7Mlisted—5
BR Brazil221 in 9.6M28——
MA Morocco≈11 est.≈1 in 3.3M—Azania3
AU Australia≈8 est.≈1 in 3.3M—Azania9
NZ New Zealand≈4 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Azania7

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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Azania is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Azañia, Azânia

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ãzanįa

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Azânia

33 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Azania 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.

  • Azaniah is a male name (meaning ‘heard by God’ in Hebrew) borne by a minor biblical character, which was occasionally used in England by Nonconformists, but this name is now bestowed chiefly with reference to the African nationalist name for South Africa, used as a symbol of resistance during the apartheid era.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, The region of East Africa as known by the Ancient Greeks and Romans.

    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)

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 10 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Azania
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—28#156,028

Reference works 1

  • 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 Azania mean, and where does it come from?
East African: ancient name for the east coast of East Africa; name for South Africa Recorded by African Names.
Is Azania a male or female name?
Azania is a female 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.
In which country does Azania have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 567 people named Azania in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled azania.
How common is the name Azania?
In Brazil, the national register counted 22 people named Azania in 2022, about 1 in 9.6 million residents.

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The 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, “Azania”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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