Ketani
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/cetani/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Ketani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 51Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 530Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ketani
- Turkish:/cetani/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Ketani is found
(measured from records)Ketani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Ketani | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Ketani | 15 |
| MA Morocco | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Ketani | 12 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 227K | — | Ketani | 5 |
| FR France | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 528K | 23 | Ketani | 76 |
| IN India | 31 | 1 in 43M | 31 | Ketani | 3 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ketani?
- In Turkish /cetani/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ketani?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Ketani in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ketani. After it come South Africa, Morocco, Algeria and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ketani?
- In India, the national register counted 31 people named Ketani, about 1 in 43 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ketani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ketaniThe 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, “Ketani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.