Goñi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡoɲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goñi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 51st most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 3K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3.8K
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 Goñi 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈82,000 named Ghani, est.
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ghani in MY Malaysia, PK Pakistan, ID Indonesia and Goni in NG Nigeria, BD Bangladesh.
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.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goñi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #114 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 5 | Ghani | 116 |
| BD Bangladesh | #99 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Goni | 65 |
| NG Nigeria | #493 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | listed | Goni | 40 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Ghani | 103 |
| MY Malaysia | #51 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Ghani | 92 |
| ES Spain | — | 6,395 | 1 in 7.8K | 6.4K | Goñi | 84 |
| UY Uruguay | #435 | 1,128 | 1 in 3K | 1.1K | Goñi | 23 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Jerome Xavierb. 1549ESnot in their usual nameSpanish jesuit missionery
- Ascensión Nicol y Goñib. 1868ESReligious Sister & Foundress (1868–1940)
- Joaquín Fanjul Goñib. 1880ESSpanish military personnel (1880-1936)
- Orlando Goñib. 1914ARArgentinian composer
- José Goñib. 1948CLChilean politician
- Uki Goñib. 1953ARArgentine journalist and historian
- Carlos Goñib. 1961ESSpanish musician and singer-songwriter
- Eñaut Zubikaraib. 1984ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Ernesto Goñib. 1985UYUruguayan footballer
- Adrien Goñib. 1988ESSpanish footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.4K | #847 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.4K | #847 |
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
- How do you pronounce Goñi?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡoɲi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Goñi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Ghani in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Goñi?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6,395 people named Goñi, about 1 in 7.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Goñi compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Goñi is the 114th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Goñi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/go%C3%B1iThe 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, “Goñi” — the 114th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.