Vani

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Veena in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 7 more, Viña in VE Venezuela, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 4 more, Vina in PH Philippines, SE Sweden, FI Finland and 2 more and Wina in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium.

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●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology 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◐

Vani is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name126K records spelled Vani17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, India, United States, Argentina

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French

  Also written Vâni, Vaní, Väní, Vāñî, Väni

• a separate given name3.4K records spelled Vani5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Vāṇī, Vâni, Vānī, Vāṇi

• Arabic given name1.4K records spelled Vani8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Israel, United Arab Emirates, United States

  Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

  Also written ואני, Vanny, Vãňï, Vany, Vàni

• a separate given name661 records spelled Vani3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia

  Also written Vâni, Vãnï

• Finnish given name491 records spelled Vani3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Finland, United States

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Väñì

• Italian given name472 records spelled Vani5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Italy

  Also written Vanì, Vãni, Vāṇi, Vâñî

• Japanese given name384 records spelled Vani2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Japan, United States

  Also written Vaní

• Turkish given name329 records spelled Vani4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, India, United States, Malaysia

  Also written Vanï, Vãni

40 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●

Vani is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, variante regional de Vanni

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Kurdish, Belonging to the city of Van, from Van

  as a word·kurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

• In Catalan, only used in em vani, first-person singular present subjunctive of vanar-se

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

• In fj, to put oil through the hair with one’s fingers

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Italian, masculine plural of vano

  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) — 81 years between 1918–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Vani Bulekib. 2000FJrugby player
• Vani KanjirangatCHresearcher at SUPSI

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 · 321 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vani?

We estimate roughly 35 thousand people bear Vani (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Vani have the most bearers?

Vani is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled veena.

How common is Vani compared with other names?

In India, Vani is the 184th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Vani a male or female name?

Vani 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.

What does the name Vani mean?

Recorded meaning: A custom in parts of Pakistan where girls, often minors, are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved family as compensation for a dispute, often over murder.