Kyani
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/kjɑni/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Kyani is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 203 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- NLNetherlands1 in 247K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 247K (inferred from the name graph)
203 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kyani
- Swahili:/kjɑni/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/kiani/(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 in the world
(measured from records)Kyani 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 | 203 | 1 in 1.6M | 186 | Kyani | 76 |
| NL Netherlands | 70 | 1 in 247K | 38 | Kyani | 4 |
| BE Belgium | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 267K | 5 | Kyani | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Kyani | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 3M | 1 | Kyani | 18 |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
203 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)- Joe Kianib. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican businessman
- Hadiqa Kianib. 1974PKnot in their usual namePakistani singer
- Nahid Kianib. 1998IRnot in their usual nameIranian taekwondo practitioner
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kyani?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /kjɑni/; in Spanish /kiani/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Kyani a male or female name?
- Kyani is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Kyani?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 203 people named Kyani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kyani. After it come Netherlands, Belgium, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kyani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kyani is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 247 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kyani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 203 people named Kyani in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kyani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kyaniThe 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, “Kyani” — ranked 38064th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.