Bandi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: do germânico bandwo; forma reduzida de nomes como Bandipertus

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 50K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 22Kas Banda
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 24K

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 Bandi 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.

India (measured from records)

26,769 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
180 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BandiLatin(measured from records)
బండTelugu(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)

recorded in Portuguese

do germânico bandwo; forma reduzida de nomes como Bandipertus.

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bandi 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 Bandi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India26,7691 in 50K27KBandi146
US United States15,055as Banda1 in 22K15KBandi180
ES Spain971as Banda1 in 52K971—4
NG Nigeria≈800 est.≈1 in 267K—Bandi9
PK Pakistan≈780 est.≈1 in 299K—Bandi11
SK Slovakia523as Banda1 in 10K523——
CH Switzerland3541 in 24K354—4
CZ Czechia233as Banda1 in 46K234——
HR Croatia146as Banda1 in 29K146——

26,769 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Bandi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Bándi, Baṇḍi, Bandī

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Bándi

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Kenya, United States, Philippines

    Also written Bándi

  • Arabic surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Bàndî, Bãñďį, Bândį, Bãndï, Bandï

  • a separate surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan

    Also written Bãndį, Bãńdī

44 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)

Bandi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, ALTERATI: Bandeélli, Bandél e Bandelléni, Bandini e Bandino, Banducci, Bandoni. Z Raro nel Nord, ha l’epicentro e la massima diffusione, spec. per gli alterati Bandini e Bandinelli, in

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In non, dative singular of band

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In got, romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌹

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In gmw-pro, band, bond, fetter

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In bnt-pro, eminent man

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

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)

1700180019002000Giovanni Carlo Bandi, b. 1709Gregorio Bandi, b. 1736Giuseppe Bandi, b. 1834Igino Bandi, b. 1847Ivo Bandi, b. 1867Hans Bandi, b. 1882Hans-Georg Bandi, b. 1920Ferenc Bandi, b. 1920Philipp Bandi, b. 1977

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)

Formalआदरणीय श्री Bandi जी,Respected Bandi ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Bandi जी,Hi Bandi, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 39 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Bandi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—44K#17
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—27K#495
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.3K#19,961
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010771#30,339
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000483#42,289
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024354#3,732
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—28#67,045
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—28#65,950
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—27#44,767
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—27#13,901
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Bandi?
A machine transcription gives /bændi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
What does the name Bandi mean?
Recorded meaning: do germânico bandwo; forma reduzida de nomes como Bandipertus.
What are other forms of the name Bandi?
In the etymology graph, Andrus, Andreu and Tero are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Bandi have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Bandi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bandi.
Where is Bandi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bandi is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bandi?
In India, the national register counted 26,769 people named Bandi, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bandi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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