Kandal
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kandal is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Kandal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 283 | Kandal | 35 |
| NO Norway | — | 400 | — | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 43 | — | 3 |
| KH Cambodia | — | 8 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | — | 1 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Heuristic parse of catalog.ihsn.org; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kandal is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bgz, railing, place to lean
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ff, fruit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 400 | #3,596 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 283 | #13,954 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 200 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 43 | #49,847 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 43 | #49,226 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #72,216 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #27,184 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- In which country does Kandal have the most bearers?
- Kandal is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled kandal.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kandalThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kandal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.