Hani
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: where
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Norway (SSB): listed under both sexes
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
- Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 43 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhæni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hani is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
- JOJordan≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 1.4K
- SYSyria≈1 in 2K
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.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 292 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)where
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hani is read
(measured from records)Hani 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.
- Arabic25%
joyful, happy
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
happy, glad, delighted. A sahaabi. See Hania
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Turkish17%
where
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hani in English.
- Indonesian10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hani in Indonesian.
- Hindi6.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hani 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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hani 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #216 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Hani | 161 |
| EG Egypt | #629 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | listed | Hani | 138 |
| DZ Algeria | #218 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | listed | Hani | 52 |
| JO Jordan | #290 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Hani | 102 |
| SY Syria | #404 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Hani | 54 |
| US United States | — | 3,054 | 1 in 109K | 2.4K | Hani | 292 |
| KW Kuwait | #265 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Hani | 79 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)Hani is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Hani är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’lycklig’. Det bärs av både män och kvinnor. En femininform till Hani är Hania.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Feliz
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In bpz, trough for feeding pigs; domestic animal, a cared-for animal ([Fox, J. 1993](Source#cldf:fox1993a))
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)- Hani al-Mulkib. 1951JOJordanian politician
- Hany Shakerb. 1952EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian singer
- Hany Abo Ridab. 1953EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian football administrator
- Hani Rashidb. 1958CAarchitect (born 1958)
- Hani Ramadanb. 1959CHSwiss Imam
- Hani Miletskib. 1962ILAmerican sexologist
- Hani Hanjourb. 1972SASaudi Arabian hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 77
- Hany Adelb. 1976EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian guitarist, vocalist and screen actor
- Hani Al-Dhabitb. 1979OMOmani footballer
- Hani Furstenbergb. 1979ILIsraeli actress and singer
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)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)86 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 346 | #62,494 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 235 | #80,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 192 | #89,549 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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)
- 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 Hani mean, and where does it come from?
- where Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hani?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæni/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Hani a male or female name?
- Hani is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Norway (SSB): listed under both sexes; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes; Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Hani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Hani in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hani.
- How common is the name Hani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,054 people named Hani in 2020, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
- How common is Hani compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Hani is the 216th most common given name of 64,319 given names 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/haniThe 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, “Hani” — the 216th most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.