Gondi
loc · Latin script
Meaning: lang., India
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gondi is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 71Kas Kandi(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 17Kas Gonda
- SGSingapore≈1 in 74Kas Gandhi
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 Gondi 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 347 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
4,707 named Kandi, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, as Gonda
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kandee in US United States, PH Philippines, MY Malaysia and 3 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(measured from records)
lang., India
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gondi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,707as Kandi | 1 in 71K | 9.1K | Kandee | 347 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,005as Gonda | 1 in 17K | 995 | — | 27 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Kandee | 17 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 489K | — | Kandee | 7 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Gondi | 21 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Kandee | 41 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Kandee | 2 |
| BB Barbados | #165 | — | — | — | Kandee | 1 |
4,707 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling kandi. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Gondi 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.
In English, A tribe of India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Gondi (language)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, sheep
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In men, v., to snore
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In bnt-pro, mouton
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
- Harry Gondib. 1900DEGerman actor (1900-1968)
- Eugen Gondib. 1947RORomanian musician
- Marie-Catherine PierreviveFRnot in their usual nameFrench court official, a trusted favorite and confidant of the queen regent of France, Catherine de Medici
- Fran Gondianimator
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 218 | #90,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105 | #154,907 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gondi mean, and where does it come from?
- lang., India Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Gondi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Kandi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gondi most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Gondi itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Netherlands's: the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people named Gonda.
- How common is the name Gondi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,707 people named Kandi in 2020, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
- How common is Gondi compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Gondi is the 165th most common given name of 1,425 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/gondiThe 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, “Gondi” — the 165th most common given name in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.