Kanhu

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kanhu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.1M(inferred from the name graph)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 6.3M
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 7.3M

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.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈130 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
80 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.1M (inferred from the name graph)

Indonesia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KanhuLatin(measured from records)
কাহ্নBengali(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

Kanhu 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.

Where Kanhu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia≈130 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Kanhu2
NG Nigeria≈34 est.≈1 in 6.3M—Kanhu10
US United States≈16 est.≈1 in 20M411Kanhu18
MY Malaysia≈4 est.≈1 in 7.3M—Kanhu2
GB United Kingdom≈2 est.≈1 in 30M7Kanhu8
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kanhu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Käñhü

28 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kanhu 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 English, Alternative form of khanhoo.

    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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kanhu under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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

Frequently asked questions

Is Kanhu a male or female name?
Kanhu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Kanhu have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 127 people named Kanhu in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kanhu.
How common is the name Kanhu?
In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Kanhu in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.

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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, “Kanhu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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