Kaká
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kaká is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: An areal word; compare Kanuri kàgá.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
121 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kaka in VN Vietnam, IN India, US United States and 3 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)
An areal word; compare Kanuri kàgá.
Sources 3
- The African book of names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaká 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.
121 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Kaká is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In att, older sibling or cousin
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In lkt, maternal grandfather
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In itv, older sibling
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kaká mean, and where does it come from?
- An areal word; compare Kanuri kàgá. Recorded by The African book of names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Kaká a male or female name?
- Kaká 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 Kaká have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 121 people named Kaká, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaká most common?
- Kaká is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kaká?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 121 people named Kaká in 2022, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Kaká compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Kaká is the 516th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kak%C3%A1The 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, “Kaká” — the 516th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.