Kindy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Probably an altered spelling of German Kindig or Swiss German Kundig (see Kundinger)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɪndi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kindy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 728K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 734K
- SESweden1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 728K (inferred from the name graph)
453 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Probably an altered spelling of German Kindig or Swiss German Kundig (see Kundinger).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kindy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 453 | 1 in 734K | 456 | Kindy | 16 |
| CR Costa Rica | 7 | 1 in 728K | 7 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
453 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Kindy 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 English, Diminutive of kindergarten.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, fifty
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
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)
- Alex Kindyb. 1930CACanadian politician (1930–2011)
- Anna Kindyb. 1962CACanadian skier
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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 456 | #44,430 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 453 | #46,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 422 | #52,998 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #46,752 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 7 | #6,823 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #267,387 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #76,921 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #345,658 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kindy mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably an altered spelling of German Kindig or Swiss German Kundig (see Kundinger). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kindy?
- A machine transcription gives /kɪndi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kindy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 453 people named Kindy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kindy.
- Where is Kindy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kindy is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 728 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kindy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 453 people named Kindy in 2010, about 1 in 734 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kindyThe 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, “Kindy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.