Ganci
surname · Latin script
Meaning: DERIVATI: Gangitano. 7 Cognome siciliano formato dal toponimo Gangi (PA), e dall’etnico Gancitano
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡænsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ganci is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 458K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 28K
- BEBelgium1 in 93K
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
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
DERIVATI: Gangitano. 7 Cognome siciliano formato dal toponimo Gangi (PA), e dall’etnico Gancitano.
Sources 1
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ganci 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 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Ganci | 29 |
| US United States | 727 | 1 in 458K | 727 | Ganci | 164 |
| FR France | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 286K | 42 | — | 4 |
| AR Argentina | 166 | 1 in 274K | 166 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 126 | 1 in 93K | 126 | Ganci | 10 |
| AU Australia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Ganci | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | 45 | 1 in 187K | 45 | — | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Ganci | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Ganci is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, variante regional de Gangi
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Sicilian variant of Gangi.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, Variante di Gangi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In pmf, spinning top
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Massimo Gancib. 1922ITItalian art critic, historian and politician (1922-2004)
- Raffaele Gancib. 1932ITMember of the Sicilian Mafia (1932–2022)
- Peter J. Ganci Jr.b. 1946USAmerican firefighter (1946–2001)
- Carmelo Gancib. 1964ITItalian military personnel
- Marco Gancib. 1976ITItalian clergyman and diplomat
- Andrea Gancib. 1980ITItalian priest (born 1980)
- Massimo Gancib. 1981ITItalian footballer (born 1981)
- Luciano Gancib. 1982ITItalian tenor
- Aaron M. GanciUSresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-7121-559X)
- Charlotte GanciFRbadminton 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 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 727 | #31,754 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 713 | #34,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 669 | #32,417 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 166 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 126 | #12,819 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 45 | #20,234 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 3 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Ganci?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡænsi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ganci mean?
- Recorded meaning: DERIVATI: Gangitano. 7 Cognome siciliano formato dal toponimo Gangi (PA), e dall’etnico Gancitano.
- In which country does Ganci have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Ganci in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ganci.
- How common is the name Ganci?
- In the United States, the national register counted 727 people named Ganci in 2010, about 1 in 458 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ganciThe 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, “Ganci”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.