Kanjana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: produced from water
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kanjana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name.
- THThailand≈1 in 552as กาญจนา(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 154K
- NPNepal≈1 in 2.3Kas Kanchan
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 Kanjana 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- 1 in 154K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 named กาญจนา, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
15 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kanchan in BD Bangladesh, AE United Arab Emirates, NP Nepal and กาญจนา in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia.
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)
produced from water.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kanjana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #17 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 552 | 166K | กาญจนา | 149 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | กาญจนา | 38 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Kanchan | 44 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Kanchan | 35 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 329K | — | Kanjana | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Kanchan | 40 |
| DK Denmark | — | 38 | 1 in 154K | 38 | — | — |
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: The page lists the top 20 most common names in Thailand based on registry data.; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 38 | #3,174 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kanjana mean, and where does it come from?
- produced from water. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Is Kanjana a male or female name?
- Kanjana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kanjana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 125 thousand people named กาญจนา in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kanjana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kanjana is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 154 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kanjana?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 38 people named Kanjana, about 1 in 154 thousand residents.
- How common is Kanjana compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Kanjana is the 17th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kanjanaThe 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, “Kanjana” — the 17th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.