Kaundinya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: one who lives by priest-hood (The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Kaundinya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 3.7Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 14Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7M (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)one who lives by priest-hood.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kaundinya is found
(measured from records)Kaundinya 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 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | 4 | Kaundinya | 41 |
| US United States | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 14M | listed | Kaundinya | 43 |
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 in-instate-surnames-bystate register; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jayavarman Kaundinyab. 478past Fu-nan ruler
- Otto Kaundinyab. 1900INGerman handball player
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kaundinya mean, and where does it come from?
- one who lives by priest-hood. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kaundinya?
- Mondonomo estimates about 388 people named Kaundinya in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaundinya. After it come United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kaundinya?
- Mondonomo estimates about 390 people in India have Kaundinya as their first surname, about 1 in 3.7 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaundinyaThe 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, “Kaundinya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.