Khanna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu (Khatri) and Sikh name based on the name of a clan found in the Khatri community who are said to be the descendants of a certain Khan Chand
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Khanna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 33K
- INIndia1 in 60K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
22,177 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)
Locally spelled Khanan in PK Pakistan.
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 (Khatri) and Sikh name based on the name of a clan found in the Khatri community who are said to be the descendants of a certain Khan Chand.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khanna 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 | #661 | 22,177 | 1 in 60K | 22K | Khanna | 256 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Khanna | 41 |
| US United States | — | 3,049 | 1 in 109K | 4.1K | Khanna | 306 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Khanna | 9 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Khanan | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Khanna | 111 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Khanna | 24 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #678 | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Khanna | 78 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 1 | Khanna | 127 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Khanna | 49 |
22,177 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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Khanna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Punjabi.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Usha Khannab. 1941INIndian composer
- Rajesh Khannab. 1942INIndian actor and film producer (1942–2012).
- Vinod Khannab. 1946INIndian actor, director, politician (1946–2017)
- Ramesh Khannab. 1954INIndian actor/director
- Rahul Khannab. 1972INIndian actor
- Twinkle Khannab. 1974INIndian author, interior designer
- Akshaye Khannab. 1975INIndian actor
- Ro Khannab. 1976USU.S. Representative from California
- Parag Khannab. 1977USAmerican political scientist
- Chahatt Khannab. 1988INIndian actress & Entrepreneur
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 | — | 22K | #559 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10K | #127 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.1K | #7,713 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,520 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Khanna mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu (Khatri) and Sikh name based on the name of a clan found in the Khatri community who are said to be the descendants of a certain Khan Chand. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Khanna?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkænə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Khanna have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Khanna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khanna.
- How common is the name Khanna?
- In India, the national register counted 22,177 people named Khanna, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Khanna compared with other names?
- In India, Khanna is the 661st 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/khannaThe 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, “Khanna” — the 661st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.