Pirani

surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitante de Pirano, na forma plural

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pɪɹɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pirani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 630K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 71K
  • BRBrazil1 in 172K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,230 people

Sources
180 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitante de Pirano, na forma plural

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pirani 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.

Where Pirani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,2301 in 172K1.2K—3
AR Argentina6441 in 71K644—1
US United States5281 in 630K687Pirani180
IN India311 in 43M31Pirani34
SE Sweden181 in 567K18—5
DK Denmark161 in 367K16——

1,230 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pirani is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Persian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran, United States, Canada, India

    Also written Pīrānī

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pirani 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 Azerbaijani, very old, elderly, hoary

    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)

18501900195020002050Eugenio Pirani, b. 1852Marcello Pirani, b. 1880Vincenzo Pirani, b. 1920Mario Pirani, b. 1925Felix Pirani, b. 1928José Rubens Pirani, b. 1958Francesco Pirani, b. 1970Tofan Pirani, b. 1975Gabriel Pirani, b. 2002

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Pirani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#7,668
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020687#35,309
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—644—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010528#41,234
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000408#48,567
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—31#60,907
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—18#27,059
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—16#27,373
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—5#143,546
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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

What does the name Pirani mean, and where does it come from?
habitante de Pirano, na forma plural Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Pirani?
A machine transcription gives /pɪɹɑni/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Pirani have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Pirani, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pirani most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pirani is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 71 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pirani?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,230 people named Pirani, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.

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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, “Pirani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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