Nania
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a reduced form of the personal name Anania
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/nanja/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Nania is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 168K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 511K
- BRBrazil1 in 929K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 168K (inferred from the name graph)
275 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a reduced form of the personal name Anania.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Nania is found
(measured from records)Nania 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 | 275 | 1 in 1.2M | 354 | Nania | 28 |
| BR Brazil | 228 | 1 in 929K | 228 | Nania | 41 |
| AR Argentina | 89 | 1 in 511K | 89 | Nania | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | 50 | 1 in 168K | 50 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | 26 | 1 in 1.9M | 26 | Nania | 12 |
275 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)Nania 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 Italian, a surname originating as a patronymic
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)- Domenico Naniab. 1950ITItalian politician
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nania mean, and where does it come from?
- from a reduced form of the personal name Anania. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nania?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /nanja/; in Italian /nania/; in Portuguese /nɐniɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nania?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 275 people named Nania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nania. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nania most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nania is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 168 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nania?
- In the United States, the national register counted 275 people named Nania in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nania?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naniaThe 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, “Nania”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.