Kanda

Locally spelled Konda in IN India, US United States.

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.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Kanda is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Hindi34%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Kanda in Hindi.

• Japanese22%

  from a coiiunon place name throughout Japan meaning ‘divine rice paddy’; also pronounced Kamita and Koda. The more prominent families of this name are descended either from the notorious 10th-century rebel Taira no Masakado, or from the Minamoto clan through the Matsuura family.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

  Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan. The word ksnd means ‘thorn’ in Panjabi.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

  nickname from dialect kandat ‘prattler’, ‘chatterer’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• English14%

  district, Japan

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Swahili8.1%

  video or audiocassette tape

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French5.1%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Kanda in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Kanda is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Kaṇḍā, Kāndā

• Ukrainian surname11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Slovakia, Czechia

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Czech

  Also written Канда, Canda

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Kanda 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 men, The bitter cassava. Digitate leaves, and in appearance much like Tange. The roots are poison

  as a word·Mende Natural History Vocabulary

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.

• Kanda Takahirab. 1830JPJapanese politician (1830-1898)
• Kiyoo Kandab. 1900JPJapanese association football player
• Kanda Nobuob. 1921JPJapanese historian
• Masaaki Kandab. 1951JPJapanese politician
• Kenji Kandab. 1963JPJapanese politician
• Rome Kandab. 1965JPJapanese actor
• Katsuo Kandab. 1966JPJapanese association football player
• Mika Kandab. 1976JPJapanese voice actress
• Akemi Kandab. 1978JPJapanese voice actress
• Sayaka Kandab. 1986JPJapanese actress, singer, voice actor (1986-2021)

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Kanda mean, and where does it come from?

from a coiiunon place name throughout Japan meaning ‘divine rice paddy’; also pronounced Kamita and Koda. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

How do you pronounce Kanda?

A machine transcription gives /ˈkændə/ (IPA) for Hindi.

In which country does Kanda have the most bearers?

In India, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named Khanda, more than in any other country we hold.

How common is the name Kanda?

In the United States, the national register counted 783 people named Kanda in 2010, about 1 in 425 thousand residents.