Salani
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Salani is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India. Recorded meaning: habitante de Sala com sufixo plural -ani.
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitante de Sala com sufixo plural -ani.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Salani counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 37 | Salani | 29 |
| US United States | — | 159 | — | 29 |
| BR Brazil | — | 118 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 72 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 12 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Salani 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 Finnish, inflection of sala:
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)
- Adriano Salanib. 1834FRItalian typographer and publisher (1834-1904)
- Lucy Salanib. 1924ITItalian LGBT rights activist and antifascist (1924–2023)
- Mario Salanib. 1966ITOlympic yacht racer
- Leonardo Salanib. 2000ITItalian rower
- Francesca Salanib. 2000ITresearcher
- Matteo SalaniITsenior researcher at SUPSI
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 159 | #110,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 145 | #112,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 142 | #126,357 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 118 | #55,876 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 72 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 37 | #53,510 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18 | #67,275 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Salani mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitante de Sala com sufixo plural -ani.
- In which country does Salani have the most bearers?
- Salani is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled salani.
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Query this name via API
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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, “Salani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.