Ganji

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ganji is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 377K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 182K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 234K

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 Ganji 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.

India (measured from records)

3,519 people

Sources
130 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 182K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ganji 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.

Where Ganji is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India3,5191 in 377K3.5KGanji99
TZ Tanzania≈610 est.≈1 in 96K1—4
US United States3381 in 984K497Ganji130
IR Iran≈340 est.≈1 in 253K—Ganji8
NG Nigeria≈290 est.≈1 in 739K—Ganji2
SE Sweden391 in 262K39Ganji9
NO Norway301 in 182K30—1
EE Estonia≈5 est.≈1 in 234Klisted—3

3,519 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ganji is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ganjī

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ganjī

  • Persian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Ganjī

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Iran, Kuwait

    Also written Ganjī

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ganji is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In dje, brush, bush, outback

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hausa, gutta-percha tree

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kmb, Atrevido

    as a wordDiccionario Portuguez-Kimbundu

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)

1920194019601980Manouchehr Ganji, b. 1930Pariyoush Ganji, b. 1945Akbar Ganji, b. 1960Davood Domiri Ganji, b. 1965

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Ganji
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4.9K#598
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—3.5K#2,032
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020497#46,253
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010338#59,742
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000151#108,734
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—39#15,337
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—30#35,461
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)

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

In which country does Ganji have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Ganji, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ganji.
Where is Ganji most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ganji is densest in Norway — about 1 in 182 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ganji?
In India, the national register counted 3,519 people named Ganji, about 1 in 377 thousand residents.

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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, “Ganji”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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