Kanhai

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kanhai is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 43K◐
  • GYGuyana1 in 82K
  • BMBermuda1 in 126K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

122K ●

in 5 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
90 ●

35K records

Official registry-verified

Spellings & scripts●

KanhaiLatin · Hindi●69K records
କାହନ୍ାଇOdia · Odia●1 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Kanhai is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—75,49731K rec.—14Kanhai65
US United States—4322.3K rec.—450Kanhai90
NL Netherlands—69386 rec.—686Kanhai44
GY Guyana—33438 rec.—451Kanhai6
CA Canada—30245 rec.——Kanhai23
GB United Kingdom—2369 rec.——Kanhai19
JM Jamaica—1592 rec.——Kanhai4
NZ New Zealand—1122 rec.——Kanhai3
AU Australia—947 rec.——Kanhai12
TT Trinidad & Tobago—631 rec.——Kanhai9
VN Vietnam—50 rec.——Kanhai2
BM Bermuda#86955 rec.——Kanhai2

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi69K57%
  • 45K37%
  • Khmer2.3K2%
  • Bangla1.3K1%
  • Indonesian8691%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi69,13357%
45,02937%
Khmer2,2582%
Bangla1,2521%
Indonesian8691%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Kanhai is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name48K records spelled Kanhai2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Kan-Hai

  • Thai given name1.0K records spelled Kanhai9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Thailand

    Also written คันไฮ้, Khanhai, การให้, คนไฮ, การ์ให

  • French given name66 records spelled Kanhai2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Kanhaï

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0100200300400190019201940196019802000361 · 1985

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Kanhai in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1900–2015
Yearrecords
19001
19141
19151
19161
19181
192010
19212
19228
192318
19248
19256
19264
19279
19285
192911
19308
193124
193227
193320
193446
193544
193635
193746
193854
193954
194061
194164
194283
194382
1944102
194584
1946116
1947127
1948124
1949129
1950130
1951135
1952156
1953124
1954168
1955155
1956156
1957177
1958218
1959242
1960229
1961191
1962257
1963228
1964224
1965218
1966251
1967311
1968244
1969223
1970286
1971230
1972285
1973259
1974289
1975307
1976304
1977256
1978318
1979320
1980207
1981310
1982324
1983336
1984337
1985361
1986215
1987312
1988208
1989258
1990275
1991300
1992269
1993292
1994272
1995195
1996130
1997151
199855
199919
20002
20013
20021
200880
20091
201032
201113
201216
201311
201482
201512

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 96 years between 1900–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Kanhai
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007686#2,656
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025451#250
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020450#50,251
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010400#51,941
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1985361—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1984337—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1983336—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1982324—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1979320—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1978318—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1987312—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1967311—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 169 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kanhai?
Our records include 121,896 bearers of Kanhai across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Kanhai have the most bearers?
Kanhai is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled kanhai.
How common is Kanhai compared with other names?
In Bermuda, Kanhai is the 869th most common given name of 1,057 given names recorded there.
Is Kanhai a male or female name?
Kanhai is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Kanhai” — the 869th most common given name in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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