as a Last Name
- 602
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Dhanani
Meaning & Origins
Hindu and Muslim name found in Gujarat, India, and among people from Sind, Pakistan, meaning ‘descendant of Dhan’. Dhan (meaning ‘wealth’) is a shortened form of an ancestral name beginning with this element, for example Dhanesh ‘lord of wealth’ (from Sanskrit dhana ‘wealth’ + īša ‘lord’) or Dhanaraj ‘king of wealth’ (from dhana ‘wealth’ + rājā ‘king’).
| 39,921st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 602
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Dhanani per capita
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