Belani

surname · Latin script

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 57K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 375K
  • SESweden1 in 464K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

198 people

Sources
32 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

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)

Belani 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 Belani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India1981 in 6.7M198Belani7
US United States1371 in 2.4M173Belani19
HR Croatia741 in 57K74——
AR Argentina301 in 1.5M30Belani15
ES Spain231 in 2.2M23Belani6
SE Sweden221 in 464K22—1
CH Switzerland101 in 840K10—3
NO Norway71 in 781K7——
GY Guyana21 in 375K2——

198 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Belani is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Belānī, Belāṇī

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, India

    Also written Белани

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Congo - Kinshasa, India

    Also written Belàni

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Arab Emirates, Syria, United States

    Also written Bēlàñî, Bélaní

45 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)

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)

Formalआदरणीया श्रीमती Belani जी,Respected Belani ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Belani जी,Hi Belani, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Belani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—198#17,888
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020173#108,965
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010137#125,282
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000103#147,095
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202174#10,022
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202168—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—30—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—24#9,968
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—23#76,582
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—23#75,692
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—22#23,327
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202410#60,931

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 Belani?
A machine transcription gives /bɛɫɑni/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Belani have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 198 people named Belani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled belani.
Where is Belani most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Belani is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 57 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Belani?
In India, the national register counted 198 people named Belani, about 1 in 6.7 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, “Belani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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