Kayani
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/keɪɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kayani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 129K
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈57,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Kayani 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 | #693 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | listed | Kayani | 72 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Kayani | 27 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Kayani | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Kayani | 100 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Kayani | 7 |
| US United States | — | 246 | 1 in 1.4M | 425 | Kayani | 136 |
| BH Bahrain | #719 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kayani | 9 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Kayani | 8 |
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. 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)- Ghazal KayaniPSPalestinian women's taekwondo athlete
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 425 | #52,687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 246 | #77,788 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 151 | #108,734 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kayani?
- A machine transcription gives /keɪɑni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kayani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 57 thousand people named Kayani in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kayani.
- How common is the name Kayani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 246 people named Kayani in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Kayani compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Kayani is the 693rd most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kayani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kayaniThe 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, “Kayani” — the 693rd most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.