Kaolin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, paper-making, etc
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/keɪəlɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaolin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M
- THThailand≈1 in 8.5Mas เกาลีน
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 Kaolin 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8 named เกาลีน, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เกาลิน in TH Thailand.
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)
A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, paper-making, etc.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaolin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | #861,379 | เกาลิน | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 5 | — | 3 |
| CL Chile | — | — | 1 | — | — |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Kaolin 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 Basque, Caolín. Porzelanaren egiteko behar dela [...] kaolin deitzen den buztina . JE Ber 8.
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 5 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #33,692 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1998 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kaolin?
- A machine transcription gives /keɪəlɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kaolin mean, and where does it come from?
- A fine clay, rich in kaolinite, used in ceramics, paper-making, etc. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kaolin?
- In the etymology graph, Kellen, Kaylan and Kaylen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Kaolin a male or female name?
- Kaolin is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kaolin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8 people named เกาลีน in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaolin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaolin is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kaolin?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 2 people named Kaolin, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaolinThe 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, “Kaolin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.