Kandari
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kandari is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 905K(measured from records)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 925K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.5M
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 Kandari 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
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 905K (inferred from the name graph)
1,465 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled কান্ডারী in BD Bangladesh.
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)
Kandari 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 | 1,465 | 1 in 905K | 1.5K | Kandari | 98 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 925K | — | Kandari | 43 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | কান্ডারী | 1 |
| US United States | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | listed | Kandari | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Kandari | 16 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Kandari | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Kandari | 4 |
1,465 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. 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)
Kandari 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 nay, A fishing net made with chewed fibre.
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.5K | #4,038 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 97 | #3,777 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 54 | #34,087 |
| 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 Kandari have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Kandari, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kandari.
- Where is Kandari most common?
- Kandari is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 905 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kandari?
- In India, the national register counted 1,465 people named Kandari, about 1 in 905 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kandariThe 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, “Kandari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.