Degani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Degano
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/deɡɐni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Degani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 6.9Kas דגני(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 140K
- BRBrazil1 in 251K
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 Degani 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)
1,250 named דגני, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled דגני in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 1 more.
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)
forma plural de Degano.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Degani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #666 | 1,250as דגני | 1 in 6.9K | 1.3K | דגני | 37 |
| BR Brazil | — | 843 | 1 in 251K | 843 | — | 3 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | דגני | 2 |
| AR Argentina | — | 326 | 1 in 140K | 326 | — | 2 |
| IN India | — | 218as Dagani | 1 in 6.1M | 218 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 61as Dagani | 1 in 138K | 61 | — | — |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | דגני | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | דגני | 3 |
1,250 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ernesto Deganib. 1841ITItalian historian and presbyter (1841-1922)
- Giannino Deganib. 1900ITItalian writer and journalist (1900-1977)
- Valentino Deganib. 1905ITItalian footballer (1905-1974)
- Alessandro Deganib. 1923ITItalian architect
- Amos Deganib. 1926ILIsraeli politician (1926-2012)
- Menahem Deganib. 1927ILIsraeli basketball player (1927-)
- Enzo Deganib. 1934ITItalian university teacher
- Barbara Deganib. 1966ITItalian politician
- Orel Dganib. 1989ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli association footballer
- Itamar Deganib. 2000ILbadminton player
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)
Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 843 | #10,778 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 326 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 88 | #24,828 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 66 | #37,229 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 59 | #16,414 |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- What does the name Degani mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Degano. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Degani?
- A machine transcription gives /deɡɐni/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Degani have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named דגני, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Degani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Degani is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 140 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Degani?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 843 people named Degani, about 1 in 251 thousand residents.
- How common is Degani compared with other names?
- In Israel, Degani is the 666th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deganiThe 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, “Degani” — the 666th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.