Kỳ
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Han-Viet name element; from the naming poem for Thiệu Hóa quận vương, Gia Long’s 9th son (Tên Họ Người Việt Nam)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Kỳ is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- RURussia
- IEIreland
- CNChina
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 109 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ky in US United States, RU Russia, IN India and 2 more.
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)Han-Viet name element; from the naming poem for Thiệu Hóa quận vương, Gia Long’s 9th son.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kỳ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2.9K | Ky | 109 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Ky | 17 |
| IN India | — | — | Ky | 11 |
| VN Vietnam | — | listed | Ky | 1 |
| CN China | — | — | Ky | 14 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the vn-kaggle-given register. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Kỳ is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt; tên vua Hậu Lê Trung Hưng, cùng bộ kỳ với các tên trong danh sách.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
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)- Emperor Duzong of Songb. 1240CNnot in their usual nameemperor of the Song Dynasty
- Johnnie Tob. 1955CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong filmmaker (born 1955)
- Katherine Taib. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican attorney (born 1974)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Kỳ a male or female name?
- Kỳ is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Kỳ mean?
- Recorded meaning: Han-Viet name element; from the naming poem for Thiệu Hóa quận vương, Gia Long’s 9th son.
- In which country does Kỳ have the most bearers?
- Kỳ is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled ky.
What do you want to know about Kỳ?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%E1%BB%B3The 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, “Kỳ” — ranked 4622nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.