Gaikwad
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡəɪkwɑd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gaikwad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 3.1M
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 49K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, 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)
Gaikwad 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Gaikwad | 8 |
| IN India | #706 | 433 | 1 in 3.1M | 433 | Gaikwad | 228 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Gaikwad | 5 |
| US United States | — | 287 | 1 in 1.2M | 740 | Gaikwad | 165 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Gaikwad | 33 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Gaikwad | 5 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Gaikwad | 5 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Gaikwad | 7 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Fateh Singh Rao Gaekwad, Crown Prince of Barodab. 1930INnot in their usual nameHead of the House of Gaekwad and Indian cricketer and politician (1930-1988)
- Eknath Gaikwadb. 1940INIndian politician
- Anshuman Gaekwadb. 1952INnot in their usual nameIndian cricketer (1952–2024)
- Varsha Eknath Gaikwadb. 1975INIndian politician
- Nilesh Gaikwadb. 1996INIndian para badminton player (born 1996)
- Vikram GaikwadIndian make-up artist
- Ravi GaikwadINIndian Government Official and Philanthropist
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 740 | #33,184 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 433 | #10,245 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 287 | #68,547 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 230 | #489 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 102 | #22,498 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 101 | #3,676 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 22 | #8,544 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #967 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #4,749 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #2,708 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Gaikwad?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəɪkwɑd/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Gaikwad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Gaikwad in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaikwad.
- How common is the name Gaikwad?
- In India, the national register counted 433 people named Gaikwad, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
- How common is Gaikwad compared with other names?
- In India, Gaikwad is the 706th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaikwadThe 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, “Gaikwad” — the 706th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.