Kanda

Family name origins & meanings

• Japanese : from a common place name throughout Japan meaning ‘divine rice paddy’; also pronounced Kamita and Kōda. The more prominent families of this name are descended either from the notorious 10th-century rebel Taira no Masakado, or from the Minamoto clan through the Matsuura family.
• Indian (Panjab) : Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan. The word kə̣ṇdā means ‘thorn’ in Panjabi.
• Czech : nickname from dialect kandat ‘prattler’, ‘chatterer’.