Kalyan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘beautiful’ or ‘auspicious’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəliən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kalyan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 267K(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 77Kas กล้าหาญ
- NPNepal≈1 in 8.8K
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 Kalyan 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled กล้าหาญ in TH Thailand.
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)
Sanskrit: ‘beautiful’ or ‘auspicious’. Feminine form: Kalyani.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalyan 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 | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Kalyan | 31 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Kalyan | 30 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 108K | listed | Kalyan | 16 |
| US United States | — | 1,248 | 1 in 267K | 15K | Kalyan | 234 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 77K | #7,853 | กล้าหาญ | 96 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Kalyan | 23 |
| IN India | #919 | — | — | 706 | Kalyan | 200 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Kalyan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sanskrit. kalyäna »schön; verheißungsvoll«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Kalyan Manojb. 2009GBbadminton player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Kalyan come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘beautiful’ or ‘auspicious’. Feminine form: Kalyani. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Kalyan?
- A machine transcription gives /kəliən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Kalyan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘beautiful’ or ‘auspicious’.
- Is Kalyan a male or female name?
- Kalyan is a male 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.
- In which country does Kalyan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Kalyan in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kalyan.
- How common is the name Kalyan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,248 people named Kalyan in 2020, about 1 in 267 thousand residents.
- How common is Kalyan compared with other names?
- In India, Kalyan is the 919th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kalyan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalyanThe 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, “Kalyan” — the 919th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.