Golany
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Golany 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)
- LVLatvia≈1 in 66Kas גולני
- NONorway1 in 228Kas Golani
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 Golany 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 13K (inferred from the name graph)
649 named גולני, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, as גולני
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled גולני in IL Israel, IN India, NO Norway and 3 more and Golani in US United States.
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)
Golany 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 | — | 296as Golani | 1 in 4.5M | 296 | גולני | 3 |
| US United States | — | 109as Golani | 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 | — | 24as Golani | 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Golany 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 Golany most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Golany itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Israel's: the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people named גולני.
- How common is the name Golany?
- In Israel, the national register counted 649 people named גולני in 2017, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Golany compared with other names?
- In Israel, Golany is the 978th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Golany?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golanyThe 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, “Golany” — the 978th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.