Sheni
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nigeria: people of the Zaria region
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/shɛni/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Sheni is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 175K(measured from records)
- NANamibia≈1 in 300K
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Nigeria: people of the Zaria region
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sheni 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 31 | Sheni | 19 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Sheni | 6 |
| US United States | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 7.2M | 7 | Sheni | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | — | Sheni | 6 |
| NA Namibia | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 301K | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 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; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1959 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1967 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1960 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1966 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1975 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1968 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1964 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1958 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1954 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1974 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1963 | 3 | — |
Reference works 1
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Sheni mean, and where does it come from?
- Nigeria: people of the Zaria region Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Sheni?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /shɛni/; in Spanish /seŋi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sheni a male or female name?
- Sheni is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sheni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Sheni in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sheni.
- Where is Sheni most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sheni is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sheni?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 2 people named Sheni in 2026, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sheniThe 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, “Sheni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.