Ka
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Aboriginal: mother
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ka is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 94K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 23K
- SESweden1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
3,535 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Aboriginal: mother
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ka 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,535 | 1 in 94K | 2.3K | Ka | 299 |
| NL Netherlands | 766 | 1 in 23K | 446 | Ka | 32 |
| BR Brazil | 364as Kae | 1 in 582K | 364 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 222 | 1 in 46K | 222 | — | 14 |
| FI Finland | 40 | 1 in 139K | 119 | — | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 24 | 1 in 212K | 24 | — | 1 |
3,535 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ka is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
creator. prajapati.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Akan, t;. 6. aka dokono, there is not any bread liere; 4- enki bo bi, nothing is wanting, it is perfect, complete. K,§267. - 7. eka n'ano, he has it at his tongue's end
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In dag, to come; Imperative: Kam na! (always used with ‘na’, giving the sense of coming to the immediate place)
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Akan, V. to he cammon, often met with, usual, frequent; ade a eka (= ewo ho da) ni, this is a common thing; sa nhoma yi ta ka, such hooks are often met with; ntama yi nta nka (=enni roan mn da or pi, wonnya sa ntama no), such cloth is seldom to he had; sa nnoma yi nkd dodo, such hirds are not very common; y^gyeeyeh nido a §nka, they showed us no little kindness. Acts 28,2
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Akan, tarn an [nea okata oman] one who covers the wJwle nation or world, a mighty ruler, used also as an attribute of God. pr. 1534. kata mail, katamanso, a very large umbrella of gaudy col- ours used on festive occasions; cf. kyinii^ bamkyinii
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
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)
- Guo Jiab. 170CNnot in their usual nameAdviser to the warlord Cao Cao (170-207)
- Wang Jiab. 400not in their usual nameChinese historian
- Yang Fujiab. 1936CNnot in their usual nameChinese nuclear physicist
- He Jiahongb. 1953CNnot in their usual nameProfessor of Law, Writer
- Wai Ka-faib. 1962CNHong Kong filmmaker (born 1962)
- Ka Deuk-yumb. 1969KRSouth Korean baseball player (1969-)
- Shao Jiayib. 1980CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Oscar Lib. 1982not in their usual nameHong Kong actor
- Hu Jiab. 1983CNnot in their usual namediver
- Ga Deuk-heeb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
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)
Attested in 50 sources across 30 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Ka mean, and where does it come from?
- Aboriginal: mother Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- In which country does Ka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Ka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ka.
- Where is Ka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ka is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,535 people named Ka in 2020, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaThe 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, “Ka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.