Ganai
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡənaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ganai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 631K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 246K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 18M
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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 246K (inferred from the name graph)
2,102 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
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)
Ganai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 2,102 | 1 in 631K | 2.1K | Ganai | 51 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 246K | — | Ganai | 7 |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 23M | — | Ganai | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Ganai | 10 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 13 | — | — |
2,102 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)
Ganai is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, soft mutation of canai
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)
- Khawaja Habibullah Nowshehrib. 1555INnot in their usual nameKashmiri Sufi poet (c.1555–1617 CE)
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.1K | #3,029 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #13,537 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #8,635 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #330,594 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ganai?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡənaɪ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Ganai have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Ganai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ganai.
- How common is the name Ganai?
- In India, the national register counted 2,102 people named Ganai, about 1 in 631 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ganai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ganaiThe 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, “Ganai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.