Forename Kanaka

All around the world, Kanaka (Kanak , Kanaka , Kanake ) is a widespread dominantly feminine, but uncommonly male first name. The first name Kanaka is characteristic of India, where it is quite a common largely girly, but seldom male name, Bangladesh, where it is quite a rare mostly boy's, but infrequently female name, and Kuwait, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name. In absolute terms, it is commonest in India, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Very seldom, Kanaka is the last name as well as the forename.

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Kanaka

name カナカ, name কনক, name កាណាកា, name Канака, name Kanake, name ကနက, name Kanaka, name Kanak, name 加那加, name Canaque, name กนก

VARIANT	COUNTRY
Kanak	Bangladesh, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Turkey
Kanaka	United States, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia
Kanake	Kenya, Bulgaria, United States, India, Japan
Canaque	Peru, France, Philippines

First names said to be same

Канака, কনক, กนก, ကနက, កាណាកា, カナカ, and 加那加

Notable namesakes

	kanaka rajan Indian neuroscientist, IN
	kanaka murthy Indian sculptor and author, IN (b. 1942)
	kanaka srinivasan Indian classical dancer of Bharat Natyam, IN (b. 1947)
	kanaka puradiredja (b. 1944)
	kanaka durga Indian businessperson (born 1970, child of Mannem Nageswaraiah), IN (b. 1970)
	kanaka ha ma IN (b. 1964)
	kanaka herath Sri Lankan politician, LK (b. 1976)
	kanaka s rachakonda researcher
	kanaka raju pandiri researcher
	kanaka d shetty researcher
	kanaka hewage y. vijitha-kumara Ph.D. Iowa State University 1985
	kanaka raju Indian gussadi dancer
	kanaka raju IN

Characteristic surnames

Ma, Laxmi, Thota, Nakka, Valli, Mandal, Mondal, Sarkar, Aikapa, Behera, Biswas, Prasad, Ratnam, Dasari, Apparao, Capapati, Bandaru, Pradhan, Rathnam, Lakshmi, Elatcumi, Mahalaxmi, Ghosh, Durga, Reddy, Pilli, Ka, Pa, Ta, Mal, Bai, Pal, Raj, Ray, Rao, Das, Mahalakshmi, Mani, Raju, Devi, Tara, Bagdi, Bauri, Karri, Katta, Kumar, Palli, Pilla, Para, and Satyanarayana