Bahmani

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/bæmɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bahmani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iran than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 134K
  • IRIran≈1 in 173K

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.

Iran (inferred from the name graph)

≈490 people, est.

Sources
103 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 134K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bahmani 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 Bahmani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IR Iran≈490 est.≈1 in 173K—Bahmani46
DZ Algeria≈230 est.≈1 in 191Klisted—1
US United States1311 in 2.5M171Bahmani103
FR France≈110 est.≈1 in 630K5—1
DE Germany≈78 est.≈1 in 1M—Bahmani36
SE Sweden761 in 134K76Bahmani6
NO Norway131 in 421K13—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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)

Bahmani is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran, Morocco, United States, Algeria

    Also written Baḥmānī, Bahmanī, Bãhmâñi, Bãhmâní, Bâhmänï

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bahmanī

35 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18801900192019401960Ali Akbar Bahman, b. 1880Mohammad Ali Bahmani, b. 1942Mahmoud Bahmani, b. 1947

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Bahmani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020171#109,993
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010131#129,825
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—76#8,925
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197115—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—13#50,781
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19915—
DZ AlgeriaAlgerian names (Kaggle, MIT)———
US United Stateswru 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

How do you pronounce Bahmani?
A machine transcription gives /bæmɑni/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bahmani have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 491 people named Bahmani in Iran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bahmani.
Where is Bahmani most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bahmani is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 134 thousand people — even though Iran holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bahmani?
In the United States, the national register counted 131 people named Bahmani in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.

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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, “Bahmani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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