Kakati
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kakati is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 256K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 183K
- GHGhana≈1 in 665K
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 Kakati 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)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 183K (inferred from the name graph)
5,185 people
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kakati 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.
5,185 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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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)
Kakati is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Māori, to sting, bite, eat, gnaw
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In sla-pro, to shit, defecate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tkp, to bite
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Banikanta Kakatib. 1894INIndian linguist and writer (1894–1952)
- Satish Chandra Kakatib. 1912INIndian journalist
- Mukunda Kakatib. 1919Indian socialist revolutionary
- Gyanada Kakatib. 1932INIndian actress
- Kashmira Kakatib. 1953INIndian biologist and zoologist
- Sangita KakatiINIndian singer
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 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5.2K | #1,527 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 130 | #19,038 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #2,222 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #5,535 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #27,490 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Kakati have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Kakati, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kakati.
- How common is the name Kakati?
- In India, the national register counted 5,185 people named Kakati, about 1 in 256 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kakatiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kakati”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.