Merani
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/meɾani/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Merani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 202K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 319K
- ITItaly≈1 in 342K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 202K (inferred from the name graph)
225 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Merani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 225 | 1 in 202K | 225 | Merani | 35 |
| IT Italy | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 342K | listed | Merani | 3 |
| US United States | 120 | 1 in 2.8M | 153 | Merani | 22 |
| CL Chile | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 319K | 1 | Merani | 24 |
| BR Brazil | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 6.6M | 31 | Merani | 16 |
| PE Peru | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Merani | 14 |
| BE Belgium | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | — | — |
225 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the xinhua-italian-manual 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Silvestro Meranib. 1688ITRoman Catholic bishop
- Ahmed Meranib. 1948DZAlgerian politician
- Federica Meranib. 1970ITItalian anglist, translator and writer (born 1970)
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)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 225 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 153 | #119,572 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 120 | #139,228 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #89,582 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Merani?
- A machine transcription gives /meɾani/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Merani have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 225 people named Merani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled merani.
- Where is Merani most common?
- Merani is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 202 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Merani?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 225 people named Merani, about 1 in 202 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meraniThe 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, “Merani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.