Kashani
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kashani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from the city of Kashan.
- IRIran≈1 in 174K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 424K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 69K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
784 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name for someone from the city of Kashan.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kashani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 784 | 1 in 424K | 879 | Kashani | 236 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 349K | — | Kashani | 8 |
| IR Iran | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Kashani | 52 |
| AO Angola | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Kashani | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Kashani | 67 |
| IL Israel | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Kashani | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 86 | 1 in 119K | 86 | Kashani | 17 |
784 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)
- Sarmad Kashanib. 1590INPersian mystic, poet and saint
- Ali Hojjat Kashanib. 1921IRIranian military leader
- Mohammad Emami-Kashanib. 1931IRIranian cleric (1931–2024)
- Jafar Kashanib. 1944IRIranian footballer (1944-2019)
- Ahmad Kashanib. 1947IRIranian politician
- Mehran Kashanib. 1969IRIranian screenwriter
- Shahrum Kashanib. 1974IRIranian singer
- Sara Delavari Kashanib. 1993IRbadminton player
- Dariush KashaniUSAmerican actor
- Ghasem Mohammadi KashaniIRIranian zoologist
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 879 | #28,796 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 784 | #29,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 636 | #33,782 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 86 | #8,109 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- What does the name Kashani mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from the city of Kashan. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kashani have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 784 people named Kashani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kashani.
- How common is the name Kashani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 784 people named Kashani in 2010, about 1 in 424 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kashaniThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kashani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.