The Bani surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 177 people carried this name — #101,737 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,666,700 people counted. That is up 36% from 130 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
291 people named Bani live in Switzerland.
They live in 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 138 people named Bani.
39 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 63 people named Bani live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
35 people named Bani is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bani.
- Banegas 3,493 · U.S. census
- Banes 2,065 · U.S. census
- Banet 533 · U.S. census
- Baney 2,553 · U.S. census
- Bangoura 288 · U.S. census
- Banholzer 205 · U.S. census
- Bano 1,069 · U.S. census
- Banos 2,455 · U.S. census
- Bans 105 · U.S. census
- Banse 375 · U.S. census
- Bant 139 · U.S. census
- Banton 2,307 · U.S. census
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