Kamani
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kamani is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 27K(measured from records)
- INIndia≈1 in 120K
- DKDenmark≈1 in 280K
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 Kamani itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kuman in 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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kamani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 120K | 576 | Kamani | 107 |
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Kamani | 18 |
| US United States | 1,174 | 1 in 283K | 673 | Kamani | 106 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 936K | — | Kuman | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 350K | — | Kamani | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 28 | 1 in 27K | 28 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 285K | 6 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Kamani is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hawaiian, large tree (Calophyllum inophyllum, at home on shores of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, with shiny, oblong leaves to eight inches long, white flowers much like orange blossoms, and globose green fruits about an inch in diameter. The wood is hard and was formerly made into calabashes.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Hawaiian, Calophyllum inophyllum, tree with wood used for house and canoe making
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Quechua, first-person singular present indicative of kamay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A tree of the species Calophyllum inophyllum.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wau, why (for what reason or purpose, how come)
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)- Kamani Wijesundarab. 1953LKbadminton player
- Kamani Hillb. 1985USAmerican soccer player (born 1985)
- Josh Wilson-Esbrandb. 2002GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 576 | #8,314 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 523 | #6,775 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 259 | #79,345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 193 | #94,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 110 | #139,757 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #57,629 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Is Kamani a male or female name?
- Kamani is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Kamani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Kamani in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kamani.
- How common is the name Kamani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,174 people named Kamani in 2020, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kamani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kamaniThe 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, “Kamani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.