Tijani
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Follower/name associated with the Tijani order; from Ahmad al-Tijani
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃʒɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tijani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Nigeria it is the 70th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 63M
- FIFinland1 in 147K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147K (inferred from the name graph)
233 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Follower/name associated with the Tijani order; from Ahmad al-Tijani.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tijani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 233 | 1 in 215K | 259 | Tijani | 13 |
| US United States | — | 187 | 1 in 1.8M | 398 | Tijani | 131 |
| BE Belgium | — | 50 | 1 in 234K | 50 | Tijani | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 38 | 1 in 147K | 38 | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 29 | 1 in 352K | 29 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | Tijani | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | #70 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 63M | listed | Tijani | 91 |
233 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tijani 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 English, A member of the Tijaniyyah, a subgroup of Sufi Muslims.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, of the Tijaniyya; Sufi order reference
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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)
- Ahmed al-Tijanib. 1738DZAlgerian Sufi
- DJ Abassb. 1968NGnot in their usual nameNigerian DJ
- Adekola Tijanib. 1975NGNigerian actor
- Tijani Kayode Ismailb. 1983NGNigerian Politician and Federal House of Representative member
- Mohamed Tijanib. 1997CIBeninese professional footballer
- Samson Tijanib. 2002NGNigerian association football player
- Kenny Emi Tijani-Ajayib. 2003NONorwegian athletics competitor
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)
Attested in 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 398 | #55,632 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 233 | #14,738 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 233 | #14,693 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 187 | #97,210 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 50 | #26,085 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 38 | #29,124 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 29 | #19,068 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 16 | #43,070 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Tijani mean, and where does it come from?
- Follower/name associated with the Tijani order; from Ahmad al-Tijani. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Tijani?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃʒɑni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tijani have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 233 people named Tijani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tijani.
- Where is Tijani most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tijani is densest in Finland — about 1 in 147 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tijani?
- In Spain, the national register counted 233 people named Tijani, about 1 in 215 thousand residents.
- How common is Tijani compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Tijani is the 70th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tijani?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tijaniThe 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, “Tijani” — the 70th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.