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 (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kashyap is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 16,695 people, counted by Instate. Kashyap is also written কশ্যপ in Bengali.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 20Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 64Kfew records
- INIndia1 in 79K
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)
- Record sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
16,695 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kashyap in other scripts: Bengali
(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’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kashyap is found
(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 |
| US United States | — | 905 | 1 in 368K | 1.7K | Kashyap | 247 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 327K | — | Kashyap | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #922 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kashyap | 49 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Kashyap | 15 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Kashyap | 7 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | 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)- Kamini Kaushalb. 1927INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
- Anurag Kashyapb. 1972INIndian filmmaker (born 1972)
- Abhinav Kashyapb. 1974INIndian film director
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kashyap?
- 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. After it come United States, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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” — ranked 703rd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.