Nandu
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nɑndu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nandu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 297Kas Nanda(measured from records)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 20K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 28K
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 Nandu 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
2,689 named Nanda
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nand in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan and 4 more.
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
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)
Nandu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,689as Nanda | 1 in 6.4K | 2.7K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,055as Nanda | 1 in 103K | 2.1K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 1,121as Nanda | 1 in 297K | 1.6K | Nand | 149 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Nand | 21 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 364K | listed | Nand | 25 |
| GY Guyana | — | 182as Nanda | 1 in 4.1K | 182 | — | 1 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Nand | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Nand | 5 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Nand | 4 |
| IN India | #402 | — | — | 91K | Nand | 161 |
2,689 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Nandu is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, rhea (any of the American flightless birds of the genus Rhea)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, rhea, nandu (any ratite of the family Rheidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, rhea (bird of the family Rheidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, rhea (large, flightless birds)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, nandu, rhea (flightless bird)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, velika južnoamerička trkaća ptica
as a wordMatasović, Pronk, Ivšić, Brozović Rončević (eds.), Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika, sv. 1-2 (2016)
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)
- Nandu Jubanyb. 1971ESCatalan chef
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Nandu?
- A machine transcription gives /nɑndu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Nandu a male or female name?
- Nandu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Nandu have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Nanda, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nandu?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,689 people named Nanda, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Nandu compared with other names?
- In India, Nandu is the 402nd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nandu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nanduThe 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, “Nandu” — the 402nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.