Khanaka
loc · Latin script
Meaning: cutting one’s foes with an axe
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Khanaka is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 11Kas Kanak(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 19Kfew recordsas Konok
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 200Kfew recordsas Kanak
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 Khanaka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 named Kanak, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est., as Kanak
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kanaka in MY Malaysia, JP Japan, ID Indonesia and 1 more and Kanak in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh.
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)cutting one’s foes with an axe.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world
(measured from records)Khanaka 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 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 773 | Kanak | 143 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Kanak | 34 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 276K | — | Kanaka | 37 |
| JP Japan | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 255K | — | Kanaka | 17 |
| US United States | 275as Kanak | 1 in 1.2M | 437 | Kanak | 128 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Kanaka | 10 |
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Kanaka | 11 |
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Khanaka mean, and where does it come from?
- cutting one’s foes with an axe. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Which countries have the most people named Khanaka?
- Mondonomo estimates about 130 thousand people named Kanak in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Khanaka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 275 people named Kanak in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Khanaka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khanakaThe 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, “Khanaka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.