Naini
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naini is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 19Kas Nna(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 1.4Mas Nani
- FIFinland≈1 in 347K
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 Naini 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 347K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named Nna, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nna in NG Nigeria, CM Cameroon, BD Bangladesh.
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
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)
Naini 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Nna | 43 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Nna | 6 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Nna | 3 |
| IN India | 958as Nani | 1 in 1.4M | 958 | Naini | 70 |
| AR Argentina | 897as Nani | 1 in 51K | 897 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 100as Nani | 1 in 84K | 100 | — | 2 |
| GA Gabon | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 8 | — | — |
| FI Finland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 347K | 44 | — | 1 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)
Naini is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Krāslavas novada Izvaltas pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Naiņi" nosaukums latgaliski
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Muhammad Hossein Nainib. 1869IRIranian Islamic scholar (1860–1936)
- Ali Mohammad Nainib. 1959IRIranian brigadier general (1957–2026)
- Majid Nainib. 1963IRIranian writer and scholar
- Sara Naeinib. 1981IRnot in their usual nameIranian singer
- Bahareh Abtahi-NaeiniIRnot in their usual nameresearcher
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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 528 | #8,838 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 498 | #7,059 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
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
- In which country does Naini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Nna in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Naini?
- In India, the national register counted 958 people named Nani, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Naini?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nainiThe 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, “Naini”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.