Kánya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: kite (bird of prey)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaːɲɒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kánya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 150K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 150K (inferred from the name graph)
174 people
Reference-verified
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
kite (bird of prey)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kánya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
174 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kánya Emíliab. 1830HUHungarian writer, editor (1830-1905)
- Kálmán Kányab. 1869HUHungarian politician (1869-1945)
- Kata Kányab. 1953HUHungarian actress, television presenter
- Gábor Kányab. 1957HUHungarian politician
- Endre Kányab. 1971RO(1971–2018)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #178,835 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #267,538 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kánya mean, and where does it come from?
- kite (bird of prey) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kánya?
- A machine transcription gives /kaːɲɒ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- In which country does Kánya have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 174 people named Kánya, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kánya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kánya is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 150 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kánya?
- In India, the national register counted 174 people named Kánya, about 1 in 7.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kánya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A1nyaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kánya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.