Kanitha
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kanitha is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name. Kanitha is also written ขนิษฐา in Thai.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.3Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 1.9Mfew records
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
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 Kanitha 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 561K (inferred from the name graph)
≈67,000 named ขนิษฐา, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kanitha in other scripts: Thai and Latin
(measured from records)29 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Khanittha in DE Germany, SE Sweden, CH Switzerland, ขนิษฐา in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia, Kanitta in US United States and Khanita in IN India.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kanitha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #41 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | register #398 | ขนิษฐา | 118 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | listed | ขนิษฐา | 1 |
| IN India | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 16 | Khanita | 14 |
| US United States | — | 139 | 1 in 2.4M | 136 | Kanitta | 49 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Khanittha | 17 |
| SE Sweden | — | 29as Khanittha | 1 in 352K | 29 | Khanittha | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 364K | — | Khanittha | 3 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 561K | — | Benyapa | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1as Benyapa | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Kanitha is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ki, the church (as an organization)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Kanitha a male or female name?
- Kanitha is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Kanitha?
- Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named ขนิษฐา in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, India, United States and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kanitha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 139 people named Kanitha in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
- How common is Kanitha compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Kanitha is the 41st most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kanitha?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kanithaThe 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, “Kanitha” — the 41st most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.