Khâmïs
surname · Latin script
Khâmïs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 295(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 2.5K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 295 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, 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 Khamis in TZ Tanzania, EG Egypt, US United States and 6 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
- Nordic Names
- The book of African names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khâmïs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #19 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 295 | 44 | Khamis | 49 |
| EG Egypt | #518 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Khamis | 117 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Khamis | 24 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 2 | Khamis | 32 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Khamis | 39 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #102 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Khamis | 113 |
| OM Oman | #66 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Khamis | 67 |
| US United States | — | 745 | 1 in 446K | 1.1K | Khamis | 154 |
| BH Bahrain | #39 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Khamis | 47 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners. 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
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Khâmïs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 198 thousand people named Khâmïs in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khamis.
- How common is the name Khâmïs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 745 people named Khâmïs in 2010, about 1 in 446 thousand residents.
- How common is Khâmïs compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Khâmïs is the 19th most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kh%C3%A2m%C3%AFsThe 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, “Khâmïs” — the 19th most common surname in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.