Golani
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡəɫɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Golani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 13Kas גולני(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 228K
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M
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 Golani 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 228K (inferred from the name graph)
649 named גולני, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled גולני in IL Israel, IN India, NO Norway and 3 more.
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)
Golani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #978 | 649as גולני | 1 in 13K | 649 | גולני | 28 |
| IN India | — | 296 | 1 in 4.5M | 296 | גולני | 3 |
| US United States | — | 109 | 1 in 3.1M | 132 | Golani | 46 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 305K | — | גולני | 3 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | גולני | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | גולני | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 506K | — | גולני | 2 |
649 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Ilan Golanib. 1938ILIsraeli zoologist
- Daniel Golanib. 1947Israeli ichthyologist and researcher
- Motti Golanib. 1954ILIsraeli historian
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 296 | #13,527 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 132 | #133,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109 | #150,452 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 55 | #5,584 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #38,592 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #1,908 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Golani?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəɫɑni/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Golani have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 649 people named גולני, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Golani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Golani is densest in Norway — about 1 in 228 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Golani?
- In India, the national register counted 296 people named Golani, about 1 in 4.5 million residents.
- How common is Golani compared with other names?
- In Israel, Golani is the 978th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Golani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golaniThe 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, “Golani” — the 978th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.