Kambi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a camp (an outdoor place, a base, or housing for a group of people)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kambi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 2M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 4.2M
- INIndia1 in 14M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0M (inferred from the name graph)
94 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a camp (an outdoor place, a base, or housing for a group of people)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kambi 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.
94 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Kambi 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 Swahili, camp
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Icelandic, indefinite dative singular of kambur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, camp; hut
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Hausa, crown
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, camp; hutte
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)
- Jaan Kambib. 1903EEEstonian photographer (1903-?)
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 947 | #898 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 94 | #29,469 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 34 | #45,626 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #91,831 |
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 Kambi mean, and where does it come from?
- a camp (an outdoor place, a base, or housing for a group of people) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kambi have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 94 people named Kambi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kambi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kambi is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 2.0 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kambi?
- In India, the national register counted 94 people named Kambi, about 1 in 14 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kambiThe 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, “Kambi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.