Yamani

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Yamani is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• French28%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Yamani in French.

• Arabic25%

  from Yemen; Yemeni

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• English11%

  Ahmed Zaki, Saudi official

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Indonesian9.2%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Yamani in Indonesian.

• Hindi6.7%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Yamani in Hindi.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Yamani is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Nigeria, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Yamanī

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Yamanī, Yamanî, Yamānī

• Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, India

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Yamàni

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.

• Abdullah Ibn Umar Badheeb Al Yamanib. 1814YEIslamic scholar
• Hussein Bin Mohsen Alansarib. 1829YEnot in their usual nameIslamic scholar (1829-1910)
• Ahmad Yamanib. 1924LBpolitician
• Ahmed Zaki Yamanib. 1930SAformer Saudi Arabian minister (1930–2021)
• Maher Al-Yamanib. 1949PSPalestinian military personnel
• Ahmad Yamanib. 1970EGEgyptian poet
• Niclette Yamani Mbeleb. 1990CDCongolese amateur wrestler
• Jamil YamaniAUvideo artist

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).

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

What does the name Yamani mean, and where does it come from?

Ahmed Zaki, Saudi official Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.

How do you pronounce Yamani?

A machine transcription gives /jamani/ (IPA) for French.

In which country does Yamani have the most bearers?

In Spain, the national register counted about 208 people named Yamani, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yamani.

Where is Yamani most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yamani is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Yamani?

In Spain, the national register counted 208 people named Yamani, about 1 in 240 thousand residents.