Foni
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/foni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Foni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country.
- ALAlbania1 in 220K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 28M
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.
- Albania (measured from records)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 220K (inferred from the name graph)
14 people
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Föni in DE Germany.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Foni 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | 14 | 1 in 220K | 14 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 28M | — | Föni | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | Foni | 6 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Foni | 45 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Foni | 13 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | — | Foni | 9 |
14 people counted by INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name 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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Foni is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In men, A coarse grass. Applied generally to the grass land as opposed to forest
as a wordMende Natural History Vocabulary
In Finnish, alternative form of fooni (“phon”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dyi, fonio, Digitaria exilis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cho, bone
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rom, ring
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In men, v., to pinch with the fingers and nails
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 14 | #8,870 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Foni?
- A machine transcription gives /foni/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- Is Foni a male or female name?
- Foni is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Foni have the most bearers?
- In Albania, the national register counted about 14 people named Foni, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Foni most common?
- Foni is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 220 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Foni?
- In Albania, the national register counted 14 people named Foni, about 1 in 220 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Foni?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/foniThe 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, “Foni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.