Kundu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Bengali (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch", 2022
/kundu/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated · uncertain
Kundu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 138,376 people, counted by Instate. Kundu is also written คณิศ in Thai, কুণ্ড in Bengali and 쿤두 in Korean (Hangul).
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 6.4Kfew records
- INIndia1 in 9.6K
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 Kundu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
138,376 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kundu in other scripts: Thai, Bengali and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled คนดี in TH Thailand and Kundy in TZ Tanzania.
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.
How to pronounce Kundu
- Swahili:/kundu/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname from Bengali.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kundu is found
(measured from records)Kundu 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 | #280 | 138,376 | 1 in 9.6K | 138K | Kundu | 207 |
| BD Bangladesh | #125 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Kundu | 84 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 2 | Kundu | 9 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Kundy | 18 |
| TH Thailand | #573 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 42K | register #8,805 | คนดี | 62 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,163as Kindl | 1 in 9.2K | 1.2K | Kundu | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | 528as Kind | 1 in 10K | 528 | — | 2 |
138,376 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)Kundu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In men, v., to skim; to take out of the water with the hand, the fingers being a little separated. Mbé nhgindu nyé ht, to draw through the water
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In olo, composition, structure, membership, staff, body
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In srn, short, little (Of comparatively small height)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mdr, dull, blunt (of parang, knife)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Czech, accusative singular of kunda
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)- Gopal Kundub. 1959INscientist
- Shinjini Kundub. 1990USIndian American physician and computer scientist
- Iman KunduGBresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-3564-1903)
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kundu mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Bengali. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kundu?
- In Swahili /kundu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kundu?
- In India, the national register counted about 138 thousand people named Kundu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kundu. After it come Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania and Thailand; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kundu?
- In India, the national register counted 138,376 people named Kundu, about 1 in 9.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Kundu compared with other names?
- In India, Kundu is the 280th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kundu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kunduThe 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, “Kundu” — ranked 152nd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.