Butani
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Grenada, 2025
Butani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- GDGrenada1 in 38K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.4M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Butani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Butani | 2 |
| US United States | 156 | 1 in 2.1M | 193 | Butani | 107 |
| IN India | 79 | 1 in 17M | 79 | Butani | 74 |
| IT Italy | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | listed | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Butani | 13 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Butani | 2 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 256K | — | Butani | 4 |
| GD Grenada | 3 | 1 in 38K | 3 | — | — |
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; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; the xinhua-italian-manual 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Butani 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.
In Latin, genitive singular of butanum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Gulbenes novada Beļavas pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Butāni" nosaukuma variants
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 193 | #100,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 156 | #112,568 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 127 | #124,872 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 79 | #33,308 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 43 | #6,644 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #220 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru 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
- In which country does Butani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 164 people named Butani in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled butani.
- Where is Butani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Butani is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Sri Lanka holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Butani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 156 people named Butani in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Butani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/butaniThe 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, “Butani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.