Kaeru
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Paekche king, reign AD 128–166
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kaeru is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 135as Kari(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 246as Kari
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.5Kfew recordsas Kar
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kaeru 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)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- 1 in 135 (inferred from the name graph)
93,447 named Kara, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland, as Kari
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Karu in IN India, MY Malaysia and Kora in US United States.
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)Paekche king, reign AD 128–166.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kaeru 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 | 93,447as Kara | 1 in 3.6K | 93K | Kora | 202 |
| FI Finland | 41,301as Kari | 1 in 135 | 57K | — | 3 |
| IN India | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 34K | Karu | 202 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Karu | 17 |
| NO Norway | 22,263as Kari | 1 in 246 | 72K | — | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 3,109as Kari | 1 in 3.3K | 3.1K | — | 9 |
| IS Iceland | 157as Kara | 1 in 2.2K | 157 | — | — |
93,447 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling kara. 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kaeru mean, and where does it come from?
- Paekche king, reign AD 128–166. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- Is Kaeru a male or female name?
- Kaeru 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.
- In which country does Kaeru have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 93 thousand people named Kara, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaeru most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kaeru itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 135 people named Kari.
- How common is the name Kaeru?
- In the United States, the national register counted 93,447 people named Kara in 2020, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaeruThe 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, “Kaeru”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.