כב
surname · Hebrew script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: CBS Israel, 2017
כב is a surname written in the Hebrew script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 41Kas קב(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.7Mas Kab
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1Mas Kab
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than כב itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
214 named קב, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, as קב
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled קב in IL Israel, PL Poland.
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)כב 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.
214 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017") | 2017 | 81 | #12,815 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does כב have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 214 people named קב, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is כב most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling כב itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Israel's: the national register counts about 1 in 41 thousand people named קב.
- How common is the name כב?
- In Israel, the national register counted 214 people named קב in 2017, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about כב?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D7%9B%D7%91The 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, “כב”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.