Kulkarnì
surname · Latin script
Kulkarnì is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Hindu (usually Brahman) name, from Marathi kulksrni ‘village clerk’ (from Sanskrit kula ‘family’, ‘community’ + karana ‘writer’ or kanil ‘helmsman’).
- USUnited States1 in 74K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 327K
- AOAngola≈1 in 7.7K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 322 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kulkarni in IN India, US United States, ID Indonesia and 5 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(measured from records)
- Marathikulksrni(measured from records)
- Sanskritkula(measured from records)
Hindu (usually Brahman) name, from Marathi kulksrni ‘village clerk’ (from Sanskrit kula ‘family’, ‘community’ + karana ‘writer’ or kanil ‘helmsman’). The kulkarni was a village official under the patel or village headman; he kept the accounts of the cultivators for the government and also the public records. The office of kulkarni was hereditary. As a rule, a Brahman was appointed to this office. He received some land rent free and was paid an annual salary.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kulkarnì 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 | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Kulkarni | 12 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Kulkarni | 19 |
| US United States | — | 4,506 | 1 in 74K | 7.5K | Kulkarni | 322 |
| AO Angola | #309 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Kulkarni | 3 |
| IN India | #395 | 4,061 | 1 in 327K | 4.1K | Kulkarni | 276 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #845 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Kulkarni | 63 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Kulkarni | 15 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Kulkarni | 6 |
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kulkarnì mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu (usually Brahman) name, from Marathi kulksrni ‘village clerk’ (from Sanskrit kula ‘family’, ‘community’ + karana ‘writer’ or kanil ‘helmsman’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kulkarnì have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Kulkarnì in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kulkarni.
- How common is the name Kulkarnì?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,506 people named Kulkarnì in 2010, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Kulkarnì compared with other names?
- In Angola, Kulkarnì is the 309th most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Kulkarnì” — the 309th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.