Kanchi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kanchi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 508K(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 671K
- ARArgentina1 in 928K
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 Kanchi 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
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 508K (inferred from the name graph)
2,609 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kanchi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 2,609 | 1 in 508K | 2.6K | Kanchi | 85 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | Kanchi | 8 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | listed | Kanchi | 101 |
| AR Argentina | 49 | 1 in 928K | 49 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Kanchi | 19 |
| SG Singapore | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 671K | — | Kanchi | 7 |
2,609 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4.9K | #596 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.6K | #2,565 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 49 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kanchi have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Kanchi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kanchi.
- Where is Kanchi most common?
- Kanchi is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 508 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kanchi?
- In India, the national register counted 2,609 people named Kanchi, about 1 in 508 thousand residents.
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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, “Kanchi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.