Kunala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a son of ASoka (P)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kunɑɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kunala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 7M(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 9.7M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 25M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.0M (inferred from the name graph)
190 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a son of ASoka (P)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kunala 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 | 190 | 1 in 7M | 190 | Kunala | 35 |
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.7M | listed | Kunala | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 25M | — | Kunala | 6 |
190 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kunala is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
a son of Asoka (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
lotus; the Painted Snipe bird.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 453 | #7,658 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 190 | #18,381 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kunala mean, and where does it come from?
- a son of ASoka (P) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How do you pronounce Kunala?
- A machine transcription gives /kunɑɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Kunala have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 190 people named Kunala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kunala.
- Where is Kunala most common?
- Kunala is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.0 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kunala?
- In India, the national register counted 190 people named Kunala, about 1 in 7.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kunalaThe 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, “Kunala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.