Kaniz
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kaniz is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: maid servant, female servant, virgin.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 668K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 152K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
maid servant, female servant, virgin
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaniz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #400 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | listed | Kaniz | 67 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 176K | listed | Kaniz | 23 |
| US United States | — | 498 | 1 in 668K | 492 | Kaniz | 94 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Kaniz | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 756K | — | Kaniz | 34 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Kaniz | 13 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Kaniz | 1 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Kaniz | 8 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Kaniz 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 Arabic, <: female servant, virgin
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Swahili, treasurer
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- What does the name Kaniz mean, and where does it come from?
- maid servant, female servant, virgin Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Kaniz a male or female name?
- Kaniz is a female 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 Kaniz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Kaniz in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaniz.
- How common is the name Kaniz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 498 people named Kaniz in 2020, about 1 in 668 thousand residents.
- How common is Kaniz compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Kaniz is the 400th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kanizThe 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, “Kaniz” — the 400th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.