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The surname Kunda

A Polish surname, carried by 538 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex K530

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kunda is more common than 75% of them.

Origin

Polish origin

Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Polish Kunda. * Borrowed from Gujarati કુંડા (kuṇḍā), a surname of the Lohanas, an Indian trading or mercantile jati.

One of 304 Polish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 538 people named Kunda in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 479.

#40,610
rank among US surnames
538
people in 2010
0.2
per 100,000 Americans
+12.3%
change since 2000 (was #42,604)

Who is named Kunda

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

78% of people named Kunda identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 7.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 78%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 12%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 7.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
  • Two or more races 1.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kunda

Kunda has the Soundex code K530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K530.

Other Polish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kunda come from?
Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Polish Kunda. * Borrowed from Gujarati કુંડા (kuṇḍā), a surname of the Lohanas, an Indian trading or mercantile jati.
How common is the surname Kunda?
538 people in the United States had the surname Kunda in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. It ranked 40,610th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kunda?
In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Kunda identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Kunda getting more or less common?
More common. 479 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 538 in 2010, up 12%.