Shabani
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: CENI, 2025
/ʃɑɓɑni/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated · uncertain
Shabani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname. Recorded meaning: (surname) Borrowed from Persian شعبانی.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 330(inferred from the name graph)
- BIBurundi≈1 in 1.7K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 328 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Shabani
- Swahili:/ʃɑɓɑni/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(surname) Borrowed from Persian شعبانی.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Shabani is found
(measured from records)Shabani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #15 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 328 | 5 | Shabani | 48 |
| BI Burundi | — | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 2 | — | 9 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Shabani | 11 |
| XK Kosovo | #459 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 354 | — | Shabani | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3,267 | 1 in 2.6K | 3.3K | Shabani | 29 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 249 | 1 in 8.4K | 249 | — | 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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025. 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)- Reza Shabanib. 1938IRIranian historian, non-fiction writer and university teacher
- Nasser Shabanib. 1957IRIranian general (1957-2020)
- Meritan Shabanib. 1999DEGerman association football player
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)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shabani mean, and where does it come from?
- (surname) Borrowed from Persian شعبانی. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Shabani?
- In Swahili /ʃɑɓɑni/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Shabani?
- Mondonomo estimates about 209 thousand people named Shabani in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shabani. After it come Burundi, Congo - Kinshasa, Kosovo and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Shabani?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3,267 people named Shabani in 2024, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Shabani compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Shabani is the 15th most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shabaniThe 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, “Shabani” — ranked 25th in Tanzania (INEC Special Gazette 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.