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Ani - Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Ani

[ syll. a-ni, an-i ] The girl name Ani is pronounced AANiy †. Ani is of Hawaiian origin, and it is used largely in the Tamil, English, and Hawaiian languages. The name is of the meaning 'beautiful'.

Ani is a variant of Annabella (English, German, and Italian) in the English language.

Ani is also a variant of Kanani (Hawaiian).

Ani is infrequently used as a baby name for girls. It is listed outside of the top 1000 names. In 2008, out of the group of girl names directly linked to Ani, Annabella was the most popular.

Baby names that sound like Ani include Aami, Aena, Agni (Greek), Aine (Irish), Ama (Akan and Polish), Aman (Arabic), Amane, Ami (English), Amie (English), Amii, Amineh (Arabic), Amma (Fante, Twi, and German), Amman, Ammie (English), Ammy, Amye (English), Ana (Georgian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slavic, Spanish, English, and Hawaiian), Anai, Anais (French), and Anaïs (French).

 



† approx pronunciation for Ani: AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"


 
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