Kanyama
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/kaɲama/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Kanyama is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country: 16 people, counted by the Danmarks Statistik.
- DKDenmark1 in 367K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2Mas Kaniama
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kanyama itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 367K (inferred from the name graph)
16 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is 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.
How to pronounce Kanyama
- Swahili:/kaɲama/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Kanyama is found
(measured from records)Kanyama 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7as Kaniama | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4as Kaniama | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | Kanyama | 5 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Kanyama | 18 |
| MW Malawi | — | — | 1 | Kanyama | 5 |
16 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)Kanyama is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In umb, be stout ; strong
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In umb, strong
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In men, window
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In umb, stout
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
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)- Emmanuele Kanyamab. 1962MWMalawian Roman Catholic bishop (1962-2018)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kanyama?
- In Swahili /kaɲama/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kanyama?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 16 people named Kanyama, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Switzerland, Sweden and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kanyama most common?
- Kanyama is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 367 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kanyama?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 16 people named Kanyama, about 1 in 367 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kanyama?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kanyamaThe 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, “Kanyama” — ranked 27532nd in Denmark (Danmarks Statistik). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.