Kanaki
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kənɑki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kanaki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 5.5M(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 365Kas Κανάκη
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7Mas Kanake
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 Kanaki 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈29 named Κανάκη, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Κανακη in GR Greece.
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)
Kanaki 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 365K | 11 | Κανακη | 37 |
| IN India | 15as Kanake | 1 in 88M | 15 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5as Kanake | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aleksandr Kanakib. 1912UASoviet athlete
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 24 | #18,512 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #169,130 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #226,531 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #265,680 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- How do you pronounce Kanaki?
- A machine transcription gives /kənɑki/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Kanaki a male or female name?
- Kanaki 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.
- In which country does Kanaki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 people named Κανάκη in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kanaki most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kanaki is densest in Poland — about 1 in 5.5 million people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kanaki?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7 people named Kanaki in 2026, about 1 in 5.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kanaki?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kanakiThe 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, “Kanaki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.