Mukendi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mycɛndi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mukendi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 6.5K
- ZMZambia≈1 in 19K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mukendi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 2 | Mukendi | 26 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 1 | — | 5 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Mukendi | 5 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Mukendi | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Mukendi | 7 |
| US United States | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 388 | Mukendi | 39 |
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 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; This page contains a list of authentic Congolese names and their meanings, published by Kabalarian Philosophy.. 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)
- José Mukendib. 1961CDDemocratic Republic of the Congo footballer (1961-2006)
- Jean Katambayi Mukendib. 1974CGCongolese visual artist (born 1974)
- Henoc Mukendib. 1993CDDR Congolese association football player
- Andy Mukendib. 2000Congolese amateur wrestler
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 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 388 | #56,803 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 143 | #120,901 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #61 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028) | 2026 | 2 | #39 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Mukendi?
- A machine transcription gives /mycɛndi/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Mukendi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Mukendi in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mukendi.
- How common is the name Mukendi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 143 people named Mukendi in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Mukendi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mukendiThe 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, “Mukendi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.