Gavini
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gavini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the personal name Gavino.
- INIndia1 in 2M(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 224K
- FRFrance≈1 in 366K
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)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 224K (inferred from the name graph)
654 people
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the personal name Gavino.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gavini 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.
654 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Gavini 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 Italian, a surname originating as a patronymic
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)
- Denis Gavinib. 1820FRFrench politician
- Sampiero Gavinib. 1823FRFrench politician (1823-1875)
- Antoine Gavinib. 1856FRFrench politician (1856–1926)
- Sébastien Gavinib. 1858FRFrench politician (1858-1938)
- Ignazio Carlo Gavinib. 1867ITItalian architect (1867-1936)
- Jacques Gavinib. 1889FRFrench politician (1889–1964)
- Christine Gavinib. 1966FRSociologist
- Elisabetta GaviniITresearcher
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.9K | #2,032 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 654 | #7,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 183 | #104,276 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 146 | #118,853 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 97 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 26 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Gavini mean, and where does it come from?
- From the personal name Gavino. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Gavini have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 654 people named Gavini, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gavini.
- How common is the name Gavini?
- In India, the national register counted 654 people named Gavini, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaviniThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gavini”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.