Käki

surname · Latin script

Meaning: cuckoo (bird of the family Cuculidae)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɛki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Käki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 5.2K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 133K
  • INIndia1 in 193K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

6,861 people

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kaki 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(measured from records)

cuckoo (bird of the family Cuculidae)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Käki 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.

Where Käki is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India6,8611 in 193K6.9KKaki4
FI Finland1,0721 in 5.2K1.1KKäki11
US United States1451 in 2.3M211—3
SE Sweden771 in 133K77Käki3
ES Spain171 in 2.9M17——
SI Slovenia101 in 210K10——
DK Denmark101 in 587K10——

6,861 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Käki is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Kaki, Ka-Ki, Kaeki, Káki, Kākī

  • Swedish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Kaki, Kàkî, Kâkį, Kàki, Kâkï

  • Arabic surname31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Saudi Arabia, United States, Syria

    Also written Kaki, Kãkî, Kàki, Käkï, Kãkï

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Ka-Ki, Kāki, Kākī, Kakî, Kaki

  • Hungarian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kaki

5 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Käki is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In izh, synonym of käkö

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In urj-fin-pro, cuckoo (bird)

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Käki
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.1K#1,792
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—321—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—38#15,808

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Käki mean, and where does it come from?
cuckoo (bird of the family Cuculidae) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Käki?
A machine transcription gives /kɛki/ (IPA) for Japanese.
In which country does Käki have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Käki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaki.
Where is Käki most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Käki is densest in Finland — about 1 in 5.2 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Käki?
In India, the national register counted 6,861 people named Käki, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.

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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, “Käki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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