Kannañ
surname · Latin script
Kannañ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: South Indian variant of KRISHNA. Kanta @ Sanskrit: ‘desired’, ‘beautiful’.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 9.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 11K
- INIndia≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kannañ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kannan in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)South Indian variant of KRISHNA. Kanta @ Sanskrit: ‘desired’, ‘beautiful’.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kannañ 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1.8K | Kannan | 232 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Kannan | 55 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Kannan | 17 |
| US United States | — | 895 | 1 in 372K | 2.6K | Kannan | 265 |
| SG Singapore | #427 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Kannan | 63 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Kannan | 20 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kannañ mean, and where does it come from?
- South Indian variant of KRISHNA. Kanta @ Sanskrit: ‘desired’, ‘beautiful’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 1 other source.
- In which country does Kannañ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Kannañ in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kannan.
- How common is the name Kannañ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 895 people named Kannañ in 2020, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.
- How common is Kannañ compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Kannañ is the 427th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
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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, “Kannañ” — the 427th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.