Tamani

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

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

rarermore common
  • PEPeru≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FJFiji≈1 in 2.6K
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 71K

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,600 people, est.

Sources
43 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Fiji, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tamani 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 Tamani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#538≈7,600 est.≈1 in 4.2K—Tamani43
PH Philippines—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 74K—Tamani17
DZ Algeria—≈600 est.≈1 in 71Klisted——
FJ Fiji#196≈350 est.≈1 in 2.6K—Tamani7
FR France—≈170 est.≈1 in 398K20——
BR Brazil—1321 in 1.6M132Tamani23

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)

Tamani is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Philippines, United States, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written T'Amani

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Morocco, Peru, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Tåmänî, Tamanï

48 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)

Tamani is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swahili, to desire, want, crave, long for

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, inflection of tama:

    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)

1940196019802000Giuliano Tamani, b. 1942Joe Tamani, b. 1972Cédric Tamani, b. 1974Terio Tamani, b. 1994Joseva Tamani, b. 1997

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)

FormalEstimado/a Tamani,Dear Tamani, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Tamani,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Tamani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—132#51,233
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199120—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193110—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19418—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19516—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19614—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19213—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19012—
DZ AlgeriaAlgerian names (Kaggle, MIT)———

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

How do you pronounce Tamani?
A machine transcription gives /t̪amani/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Tamani have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.6 thousand people named Tamani in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tamani.
How common is the name Tamani?
In Brazil, the national register counted 132 people named Tamani, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
How common is Tamani compared with other names?
In Peru, Tamani is the 538th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Tamani” — the 538th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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