Runi

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Annie in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NL Netherlands and 18 more, Anni in FI Finland and อรุณี in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Runi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Danish given name771 records spelled Runi9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Faroe Islands, Norway, India

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic

  Also written Rúni

• Spanish given name637 records spelled Runi6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, Spain, India

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Rúni, Rùnì, Rūnī

• Arabic given name278 records spelled Runi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Syria, India, Türkiye, United States

  Also written Rūnī, Rúni

• Turkish given name255 records spelled Runi6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, India

  Also written Rüni, Rúni, Řuni

• a separate given name244 records spelled Runi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written Rúni, Rūnī

36 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.

Other recorded senses●

Runi 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 Polish, genitive/dative/locative/vocative singular of ruń

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Serbo-Croatian, dative/locative singular of runa

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In non, male pig

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 87 years between 1916–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Runi Langumb. 1958NONorwegian painter (born 1958)
• Runi Rodahlb. 1965NONorwegian wrestler

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 174 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Runi?

We estimate roughly 430 thousand people bear Runi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Runi have the most bearers?

We estimate about 210 thousand people bear Runi in France, more than in any other country in our records.

Where is Runi most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Runi is densest in Finland — about 1 in 280 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.

How common is Runi compared with other names?

In Singapore, Runi is the 106th most common given name of 46,862 given names recorded there.

Is Runi a male or female name?

Runi is a female 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.