Huni
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Huni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Zimbabwe than in any other country.
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 6.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 45K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 266K
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 Huni 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.
- Zimbabwe (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hueni in US United States and Hüni in CH Switzerland.
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)
Huni 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZW Zimbabwe | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Huni | 16 |
| IN India | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | 4 | Huni | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Huni | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 187 | 1 in 45K | 187 | Hüni | 12 |
| US United States | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Hueni | 62 |
| FR France | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 10 | — | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 715K | — | Huni | 26 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)
Huni is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In rtm, lower end, end of origin, fixture or support; (of tree) root and lower part of trunk; (of tooth) root; (of district) capital, principal village (where the chief resides); origin, cause; be about or concerning (< *_puqun ni_ ‘foundation of’, with fossilized genitive marker)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In rtm, flowering bush with dark green leaves, petioles often reddish. Fruit about the size of marbles
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In aia, a skin disease, species of ringworm, Tinea circinata tropica
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In poz-cet-pro, chirp, tweet, crow, produce sound (of birds)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Turkish, funnel (vessel used to pour liquids)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of hony
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)
- Justis Hunib. 1999AUAustralian boxer
- Pita Hunib. 2001TOTongan footballer
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #163,601 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- In which country does Huni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Huni in Zimbabwe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huni.
- How common is the name Huni?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 187 people named Huni in 2024, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Huni?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/huniThe 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, “Huni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.