Kunda
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kunda is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Konrad.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.8Kas Kundu(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 9.6Kas Kundu
- PLPoland1 in 43K
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 Kunda 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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
138,376 named Kundu
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kundu in IN India, BD Bangladesh, CZ Czechia and 2 more and Kundy in TZ Tanzania.
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)
from a pet form of the personal name Konrad.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kunda 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 | #280 | 138,376as Kundu | 1 in 9.6K | 138K | Kundu | 207 |
| BD Bangladesh | #125 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Kundu | 84 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 2 | Kundu | 9 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 1 | Kundy | 18 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Kundu | 28 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,163as Kindl | 1 in 9.2K | 1.2K | Kundu | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 883 | 1 in 43K | 447 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 528as Kind | 1 in 10K | 528 | — | 2 |
138,376 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)
Kunda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
an attendant of Skanda (M); a mountain (P);
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Polish, nickname from a derivative of kunda ‘marten’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Polish, Hindu (Lohana) name of unknown meaning.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
musk; jasmine (Jasminum pubescens); Oleander (Nerium odorum); the number 9.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
bowl; pot; spring; well.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kunda Smithb. 1863NONorwegian missionary
- Piotr Kundab. 1897PLPolish officer (1897-1939)
- Andor Kundab. 1905HUHungarian journalist
- Willie Kundab. 1945ZMassociation football player (1945-2007)
- Ziva Kundab. 1955USCanadian psychologist
- Masahiro Kundab. 1966JPJapanese rugby union footballer and coach
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)
Attested in 35 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4.1K | #485 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 3.7K | #1,968 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 447 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 447 | #7,201 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 436 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 436 | #7,539 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 33 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1971 | 26 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1967 | 25 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1977 | 24 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1970 | 24 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1974 | 23 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kunda mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Konrad. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kunda have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 138 thousand people named Kundu, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kunda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kunda is densest in Poland — about 1 in 43 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kunda?
- In Poland, the national register counted 883 people named Kunda in 2026, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Kunda compared with other names?
- In India, Kunda is the 280th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Kunda” — the 280th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.