Dawani
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dəwɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dawani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 63M(measured from records)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 14K
- JOJordan≈1 in 66K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈840 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
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)
Dawani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 279K | — | Dawani | 15 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Dawani | 9 |
| BH Bahrain | #313 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Dawani | 25 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Dawani | 4 |
| US United States | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | listed | Dawani | 56 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Dawani | 13 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 836K | — | Dawani | 4 |
| IN India | — | 21 | 1 in 63M | 21 | Dawani | 50 |
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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)
Dawani 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 Polish, virile nominative/vocative plural of dawany
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, a mythical goddess
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 25 | #9,665 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 21 | #76,460 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Dawani?
- A machine transcription gives /dəwɑni/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Dawani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 836 people named Dawani in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dawani.
- How common is the name Dawani?
- In India, the national register counted 21 people named Dawani, about 1 in 63 million residents.
- How common is Dawani compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Dawani is the 313th most common surname of 8,798 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dawani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dawaniThe 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, “Dawani” — the 313th most common surname in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.