Kanwa
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kanwa is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 523Kas Kanwar(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3Mas Kanwar
- HUHungary≈1 in 105Kas Kanwar
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 Kanwa 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
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)
2,534 named Kanwar
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est., as Kanwar
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kanwar in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan and 5 more.
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)
Kanwa 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 | #313 | 2,534as Kanwar | 1 in 523K | 2.5K | Kanwar | 157 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Kanwar | 43 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 565K | — | Kanwar | 12 |
| US United States | — | 257as Kanwar | 1 in 1.3M | 368 | Kanwar | 171 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 236K | 2 | Kanwar | 27 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Kanwar | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Kanwar | 11 |
| NO Norway | — | 38as Kanwar | 1 in 144K | 38 | — | 4 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Kanwar | 3 |
2,534 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Kanwa 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 mch, woven rectangular basket with a telescoping lid, commonly associated with shamans and used to store ritual objects
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, Aida cloth
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 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #93,098 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kanwa have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Kanwar, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kanwa?
- In India, the national register counted 2,534 people named Kanwar, about 1 in 523 thousand residents.
- How common is Kanwa compared with other names?
- In India, Kanwa is the 313th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames 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/kanwaThe 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, “Kanwa” — the 313th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.