Kangala
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kangala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.9Mas Kongala(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
- GYGuyana1 in 250Kas Kangal
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 Kangala 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3M (inferred from the name graph)
700 named Kongala
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kongala 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.
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)
Kangala 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 | 700as Kongala | 1 in 1.9M | 700 | Kongala | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | 12as Kangal | 1 in 1.4M | 12 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 29M | listed | Kongala | 22 |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4as Kangal | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 3as Kangal | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
700 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Kangala is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In umb, crush with pestle, tie olombala to osoka
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In umb, crush
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In Latvian, pilsēta Turcijā ("Kangal"), Sivasas ilā, 10400 iedzīvotāju (2013. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.1K | #3,628 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 611 | #7,944 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #101,523 |
| 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 Kangala have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 700 people named Kongala, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kangala most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kangala is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 2.3 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kangala?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 5 people named Kangala in 2008, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kangala?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kangalaThe 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, “Kangala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.