Khemaka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The fowler in the Mahāhamsa Jātaka who caught the golden swan for King Seyya; identified with Channa
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Khemaka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 2M(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 12Mfew recordsas เขมะกะ
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 Khemaka 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)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0M (inferred from the name graph)
671 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled เขมะกะ in TH Thailand.
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)The fowler in the Mahāhamsa Jātaka who caught the golden swan for King Seyya; identified with Channa. J. v. 356 ff.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Khemaka 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.
671 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. 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)Khemaka 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 pi, Sākyan of Kapilavatthu, father of Abhirūpa-Nandā; cf. ThigA. 25; Ap. ii. 608.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
In pi, A Sākyan of Kapllavatthu, father of Abhirūpa-Nandā.’ See also Kāḷa-Khemaka.
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 671 | #7,387 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Khemaka come from?
- The fowler in the Mahāhamsa Jātaka who caught the golden swan for King Seyya; identified with Channa. J. v. 356 ff. Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh).
- What does the name Khemaka mean?
- Recorded meaning: The fowler in the Mahāhamsa Jātaka who caught the golden swan for King Seyya; identified with Channa.
- In which country does Khemaka have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 671 people named Khemaka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khemaka.
- Where is Khemaka most common?
- Khemaka is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Khemaka?
- In India, the national register counted 671 people named Khemaka, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khemakaThe 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, “Khemaka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.