Ziani
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ziani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: habitante de Ziano, na forma plural.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 4.2K
- FRFrance≈1 in 17K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitante de Ziano, na forma plural
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ziani 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.
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the dz-kaggle-names register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Ziani is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In vo, accusative singular of zian
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)
- Sebastiano Zianib. 1102ITpolitician (1102-1178)
- Pietro Zianib. 1153ITDoge of Venice
- Benomar Zianib. 1938MAMoroccan singer
- Hocine Zianib. 1953DZAlgerian painter (born 1953)
- Ahmed Zianib. 1954MAMoroccan-Dutch writer (1954-2016)
- Stéphane Zianib. 1971FRFrench footballer
- Karim Zianib. 1982FRAlgerian and French footballer
- Salima Zianib. 1994MAMoroccan singer
- Ines Zianib. 2001DZbadminton player
- Ilyes Zianib. 2003BEBelgian footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.1K | #2,332 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.1K | #2,331 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 849 | #1,621 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 516 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 509 | #16,838 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 495 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 473 | #3,230 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 372 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 266 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 8 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Ziani mean, and where does it come from?
- habitante de Ziano, na forma plural Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Ziani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Ziani in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ziani.
- How common is the name Ziani?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,099 people named Ziani, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Ziani compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Ziani is the 82nd most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zianiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ziani” — the 82nd most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.