Colombani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a French surname from Corsican (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kɔ.lɔ̃.ba.ni/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Colombani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In French Polynesia it is the 35th most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 78K
- ARArgentina1 in 142K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
French Polynesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Colombani
- French:/kɔ.lɔ̃.ba.ni/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/kolombani/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/kolõbɐni/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a French surname from Corsican
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Colombani is found
(measured from records)Colombani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 230 | Colombani | 221 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 78K | listed | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | — | 320 | 1 in 142K | 320 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 217 | 1 in 976K | 217 | — | — |
| PF French Polynesia | #35 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Colombani | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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)Colombani is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, de Colombo com sufixo plural -ani; indica oriundo de Colombano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Colombo
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Italian, a surname originating as a patronymic
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)- Louis Colombanib. 1931FRFrench commercial trader and politician (1931–2024)
- Jean-Marie Colombanib. 1948FRFrench journalist
- Laetitia Colombanib. 1976FRFrench actress, director and writer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Colombani mean, and where does it come from?
- a French surname from Corsican Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Colombani?
- It depends on the language: in French /kɔ.lɔ̃.ba.ni/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /kolombani/; in Portuguese /kolõbɐni/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Colombani?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Colombani in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colombani. After it come Italy, Argentina, Brazil and French Polynesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Colombani?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 320 people named Colombani, about 1 in 142 thousand residents.
- How common is Colombani compared with other names?
- In French Polynesia, Colombani is the 35th most common surname of 36 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Colombani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/colombaniThe 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, “Colombani” — the 35th most common surname in French Polynesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.