Kadiri
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Capable (The African book of names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kadiri is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 2,871 people, counted by Instate.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 65K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 74K
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 Kadiri 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 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
2,871 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kadiri in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kadari in IN India, US United States.
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)Capable.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The African book of names
Where the surname Kadiri is found
(measured from records)Kadiri 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 | 2,871 | 1 in 462K | 2.9K | Kadari | 87 |
| FR France | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | 970 | — | 171 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 825 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 563as Kadir | 1 in 591K | 786 | Kadari | 77 |
| ES Spain | 447 | 1 in 112K | 447 | — | 22 |
| NO Norway | 246as Kadir | 1 in 22K | 348 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 206as Kadir | 1 in 3.6K | 206 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 126as Kadir | 1 in 47K | 204 | — | — |
2,871 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling kadiri. 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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kadiri is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, to assess, estimate, calculate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, disgusting; yucky
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Ruth Kadirib. 1988NGNigerian actress, screenwriter and film producer
- Abdul Kadiri Mohammedb. 1996GHassociation football player
- Jordan Attah Kadirib. 2000NGNigerian footballer
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kadiri mean, and where does it come from?
- Capable. Recorded by The African book of names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kadiri?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Kadiri, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kadari. After it come France, Kosovo, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kadiri?
- In India, the national register counted 2,871 people named Kadiri, about 1 in 462 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kadiri?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kadiriThe 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, “Kadiri” — ranked 2376th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.