Kande
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kande is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 911
- GNGuinea≈1 in 3.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 911 (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
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)
Kande 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 911 | 10 | Kande | 3 |
| GN Guinea | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 1 | — | — |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1.5K | — | — |
| IN India | 1,096 | 1 in 1.2M | 1.1K | Kande | 89 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 195K | listed | Kande | 7 |
| ES Spain | 814 | 1 in 61K | 814 | — | 2 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
Kande is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, githeri (traditional Kenyan meal of maize and beans mixed and boiled together)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, present indicative connegative of kandee; alternative form of kannata
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, jug (large serving vessel, amount a jug can hold)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, genitive singular of kanne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, deserted plantation
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In wlo, to eat
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alex Kande Mupompab. 1950CDCongolese politician
- Vieux Kandeb. 1994SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1994)
- Egge KandeSNcommunity leader who advises young girls about education
- Giri Babu Kanderesearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.5K | #2,669 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 1.5K | #380 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.1K | #5,105 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 814 | #5,313 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 814 | #5,307 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 10 | #61 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #17 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 1 | #35 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kande have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Kande in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kande.
- How common is the name Kande?
- In India, the national register counted 1,096 people named Kande, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kandeThe 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, “Kande”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.