Madani
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Madani is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Arabic Madani, a term denoting a follower of a Sufi order, Madaniyya, established by Muhammad Hasan ibn Hamza al-Madani (died 1846).
- USUnited States1 in 132Kas Madina(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 70K
- NPNepal≈1 in 762as Madan
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Madani itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 named Madan, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Madan in IN India, US United States, ID Indonesia and 1 more, Maden in FR France and Madhan in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Arabic Madani, a term denoting a follower of a Sufi order, Madaniyya, established by Muhammad Hasan ibn Hamza al-Madani (died 1846). The word madani literally means ‘citizen’, ‘townsman’, or ‘polite’, ‘sociable’, ‘urbane’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Madani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 762 | — | Madan | 66 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 68K | listed | Madan | 56 |
| US United States | — | 2,521as Madina | 1 in 132K | 188K | Madan | 243 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Madani | 98 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,266as Medina | 1 in 8.1K | 1.3K | Madhan | 11 |
| FR France | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 1.5K | Maden | 228 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 443as Medina | 1 in 4.7K | 459 | — | — |
| AL Albania | — | 366as Medina | 1 in 8.4K | 366 | — | 21 |
| MD Moldova | — | 313as Madina | 1 in 11K | 313 | — | 4 |
| IN India | #216 | — | — | 9.8K | Madan | 219 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); e-services.md — living population register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Madani is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, urbane, civilized
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Refinado
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Malay, civilised (advanced in terms of reasoning, spirituality and wealth, of a society or generation of people)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, civic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mba, near
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ahmad Madanib. 1928IRIranian politician (1928–2006)
- Abassi Madanib. 1931DZAlgerian politician, the founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (1931–2019)
- Nizar Madanib. 1941SASaudi state minister for foreign affairs
- Abdul Azeez Madanib. 1950INIslamic scholar
- Ali Madanib. 1964IRIranian tennis player
- Proschat Madanib. 1967ATAustrian actress
- Tala Madanib. 1981USIranian-American painter (born 1981)
- Houari Manarb. 1981DZnot in their usual nameAlgerian rai singer
- Nawell Madanib. 1983BEBelgian humorist
- Abdelmalek Madanib. 1983DZAlgerian bicycle racer
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 48 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 803 | #30,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 649 | #34,801 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 494 | #41,522 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 391 | #11,074 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 275 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 271 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 233 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 153 | #5,162 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 127 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 126 | #19,486 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Madani mean, and where does it come from?
- from Arabic Madani, a term denoting a follower of a Sufi order, Madaniyya, established by Muhammad Hasan ibn Hamza al-Madani (died 1846). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Madani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Madan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Madani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,521 people named Madina in 2020, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
- How common is Madani compared with other names?
- In India, Madani is the 216th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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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, “Madani” — the 216th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.