Kanahaya Surname
Approximately 10 people bear this surname
Kanahaya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 8 | 1:95,883,173 | 728,828 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Kanahaya (230) may also be a first name.
Kanahaya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kanahaya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kanahaya (Hindi: कन्हैया, Marathi: कनहया, Oriya: କନହାୟା) is found in India more than any other country or territory. It may occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kanahaya? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 6,063,924th most widespread surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 728,754,592 people. This last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 90 percent of Kanahaya reside; 80 percent reside in South Asia and 80 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Kanahaya is also the 591,855th most frequently held forename at a global level, borne by 230 people.
The surname Kanahaya is most prevalent in India, where it is borne by 8 people, or 1 in 95,883,173. In India it is primarily concentrated in: Bihar, where 88 percent are found and Maharashtra, where 13 percent are found. Aside from India it exists in 2 countries. It is also found in Indonesia, where 10 percent are found and Tanzania, where 10 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kanahaya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kanahaya in the Oriya language | ||
| କନହାୟା | kanahaya | - |
| Kanahaya in the Marathi language | ||
| कनहया | kanahaya | 62.5 |
| कानहया | kanahaya | 18.75 |
| कन्हैया | kanhaiya | 6.25 |
| कन्हेया | kanheya | 6.25 |
| कानाहाया | kanahaya | 6.25 |
| Kanahaya in the Hindi language | ||
| कन्हैया | kanhaiya | 55.56 |
| कनहया | kanahaya | 44.44 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kanahaya
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