Kimani

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Sailor

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kimani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 373K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 116K
  • NONorway1 in 228K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

892 people, 2010

Sources
197 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Sailor

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kimani 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.

Where Kimani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8921 in 373K1.4KKimani197
FI Finland481 in 116K48——
NO Norway241 in 228K24——
DK Denmark111 in 534K11——
PL Poland111 in 3.5M6—1
CH Switzerland81 in 1.1M8—4

892 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kimani is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kenya, United Kingdom, Guatemala

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kímáñí, Kïmäñï, Kimanï

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Kĩmani

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kĩmani

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1960197019801990Peter Kimani Ndung’u, b. 1966Martin Kimani, b. 1971Joseph Kimani, b. 1972Lucia Kimani, b. 1980Harry Kimani, b. 1982Samuel Kimani, b. 1985Victoria Kimani, b. 1985Kevin Kimani, b. 1989Samwel Mushai Kimani, b. 1989Sarah Kimani, b. 1990

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 41 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Kimani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,744
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010892#27,144
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000301#62,236
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—48#23,505
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—24#38,674
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—11#38,294
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20248#72,019
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20266—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#180,758
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#198,567
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Kimani mean, and where does it come from?
Sailor Recorded by The book of African names.
In which country does Kimani have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 892 people named Kimani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kimani.
Where is Kimani most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kimani is densest in Finland — about 1 in 116 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kimani?
In the United States, the national register counted 892 people named Kimani in 2010, about 1 in 373 thousand residents.

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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, “Kimani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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