Tanimu
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tanimu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic تَانِيم (tānīm).
- NGNigeria≈1 in 32M(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32M (inferred from the name graph)
≈7 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Arabic تَانِيم (tānīm).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tanimu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #613 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 32M | listed | Tanimu | 53 |
| KE Kenya | — | — | — | — | Tanimu | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | — | — | Tanimu | 25 |
| GH Ghana | — | — | — | — | Tanimu | 13 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | — | Tanimu | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | — | Tanimu | 11 |
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tanimu mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic تَانِيم (tānīm). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Tanimu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7 people named Tanimu in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tanimu.
- How common is the name Tanimu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7 people in Nigeria have Tanimu as their first surname, about 1 in 32 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Tanimu compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Tanimu is the 613th most common surname of 346,007 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/tanimuThe 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, “Tanimu” — the 613th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.