Kancha

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Kancha is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 508Kas Kanchi(measured from records)
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 229K
  • ESSpain1 in 7.1M

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 Kancha 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 (measured from records)

2,609 named Kanchi

Sources
101 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 229K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KanchiLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kanchi in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 2 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kancha 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.

Where Kancha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India2,609as Kanchi1 in 508K2.6KKanchi85
MY Malaysia≈140 est.≈1 in 229K—Kanchi8
US United States≈120 est.≈1 in 2.7MlistedKanchi101
AR Argentina49as Kanchi1 in 928K49——
GB United Kingdom≈17 est.≈1 in 3.9M—Kanchi19
SG Singapore≈9 est.≈1 in 671K—Kanchi7
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7—1

2,609 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kancha is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kānchā

  • Malay surname41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Thailand

    Languages: Malay, Thai

    Also written Gangsa, แก่นชา, ขันชา, ขานชา, กุญชา

  • Bangla surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh

    Also written Kaca, কাচা, কাঁচা, Kaća

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kancha 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.

  • In Quechua, outside

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Aymara, Hazer orilla coloradas

    as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Kancha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—116#20,590
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—93#29,879
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7#143,513
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19944—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19914—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19624—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19983—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19953—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19933—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19863—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19783—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19723—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Kancha have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Kanchi, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Kancha?
In Spain, the national register counted 7 people named Kancha, about 1 in 7.1 million residents.

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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, “Kancha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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