Kahini
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Priest, holy person
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Kahini is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 34Kfew recordsas কাহিনী
- INIndia≈1 in 94Mfew recordsas কাহিনী
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 Kahini 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 named কাহিনী, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled কাহিনী in 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)Priest, holy person.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The African book of names
Where the surname Kahini is found
(measured from records)Kahini 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | কাহিনী | 4 |
| IN India | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 94M | listed | Kahini | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 12 | 1 in 1.4M | 12 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | listed | — | — |
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-kaggle-names-gender register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the african-book-names-hodari-2003 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kahini mean, and where does it come from?
- Priest, holy person. Recorded by The African book of names.
- Is Kahini a male or female name?
- Kahini is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kahini?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named কাহিনী in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kahini most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kahini is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.4 million people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kahini?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 12 people named Kahini in 2007, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kahini?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kahiniThe 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, “Kahini”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.