Kashyap
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu name based on the name of a gotra (an exogamous group among Brahmans and some other communities) called Kashyap
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑʃiæp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kashyap is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 79K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 368K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 16K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
16,695 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, 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)
Hindu name based on the name of a gotra (an exogamous group among Brahmans and some other communities) called Kashyap. It was the name of a celebrated Hindu sage, from Sanskrit kasyapa, a word with many meanings, including ‘tortoise’ and ‘deer’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kashyap 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 | #199 | 16,695 | 1 in 79K | 17K | Kashyap | 235 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Kashyap | 5 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kashyap | 12 |
| US United States | — | 905 | 1 in 368K | 1.7K | Kashyap | 247 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #922 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Kashyap | 49 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Kashyap | 10 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kashyap | 7 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Kashyap | 11 |
16,695 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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shiv Ram Kashyapb. 1882Indian bryologist (1882-1934)
- D.D. Kashyapb. 1910INIndian film director
- Kamini Kaushalb. 1927INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
- Dinesh Kashyapb. 1962INIndian politician
- Anurag Kashyapb. 1972INIndian filmmaker (born 1972)
- Abhinav Kashyapb. 1974INIndian film director
- Anjana Om Kashyapb. 1975INIndian journalist and anchor
- Shibani Kashyapb. 1979INIndian actress
- Aruni Kashyapb. 1984Indian writer
- Aakarshi Kashyapb. 2001INbadminton player
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 17K | #703 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8.2K | #146 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,275 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 905 | #26,853 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 432 | #46,426 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kashyap mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu name based on the name of a gotra (an exogamous group among Brahmans and some other communities) called Kashyap. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kashyap?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑʃiæp/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Kashyap have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Kashyap, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kashyap.
- How common is the name Kashyap?
- In India, the national register counted 16,695 people named Kashyap, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
- How common is Kashyap compared with other names?
- In India, Kashyap is the 199th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kashyapThe 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, “Kashyap” — the 199th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.