Fanini
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma coloquial, redução de Cristofanini
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fænini/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fanini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 135K
- BRBrazil1 in 710K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
≈460 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma coloquial, redução de Cristofanini.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fanini 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 135K | listed | Fanini | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 298 | 1 in 710K | 298 | Fanini | 43 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Fanini | 10 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | listed | Fanini | 27 |
| ES Spain | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Fanini | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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)
- Ivano Faninib. 1951ITItalian entrepreneur
- Michela Faninib. 1973ITItalian racing cyclist (1973-1994)
- Lucia Faniniresearcher
- Bruno FaniniITresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0003-4058-877X
- Donatella Faniniresearcher
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 298 | #26,560 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Fanini?
- A machine transcription gives /fænini/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Fanini mean?
- Recorded meaning: forma coloquial, redução de Cristofanini.
- In which country does Fanini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 463 people named Fanini in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fanini.
- How common is the name Fanini?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 298 people named Fanini, about 1 in 710 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faniniThe 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, “Fanini”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.