Kakuli
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kakuli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 103K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 134K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 987Kas Kakali
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 Kakuli 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kakali in US United States, NG Nigeria, SE Sweden and 3 more and কাকলী in BD Bangladesh.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kakuli 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #929 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 103K | listed | কাকলী | 19 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Kakuli | 8 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Kakali | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | — | Kakali | 50 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | Kakali | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 6as Kakali | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | Kakali | 5 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Kakali | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 987K | — | Kakali | 2 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Kakuli 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 Arabic, curl or lock of hair.®
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Basque, "(L), mosca negra grande que busca las deyecciones" A .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Kakuli a male or female name?
- Kakuli is a female 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 Kakuli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Kakuli in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled কাকলী.
- How common is the name Kakuli?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6 people named Kakali, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Kakuli compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Kakuli is the 929th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kakuli?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kakuliThe 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, “Kakuli” — the 929th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.