Tanasi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/tanasi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Tanasi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 2 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.

  • PLPoland1 in 19M(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

Poland (measured from records)

2 people, 2026

Record sources
38 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 19M (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Tanasi

  • Spanish:/tanasi/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Italian:/tanasi/(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)

a surname originating as a patronymic

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Tanasi is found

(measured from records)

Tanasi 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 Tanasi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland21 in 19M2——
IT Italy——listedTanasi38
US United States——listedTanasi16
FR France——32——
EE Estonia——listed——

2 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tanasī

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania

    Also written Tănasi, Tanasî

45 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)

Tanasi 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 Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Attanasi

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Attanasio

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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)

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 Tanasi,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tanasi mean, and where does it come from?
a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Tanasi?
It depends on the language: in Spanish /tanasi/; in Italian /tanasi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Tanasi have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 2 people named Tanasi, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Tanasi most common?
Tanasi is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Tanasi?
In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Tanasi in 2026, about 1 in 19 million 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, “Tanasi” — ranked 393774th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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