Khem
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɛm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Khem is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 82Kas เข็ม(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 1.2M
- GYGuyana1 in 47Kas Kem
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 Khem 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
1,163 named Kem, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เคมี 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
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)
Khem 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.
1,163 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling kem. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Khem 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 suk, grunt with effort
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In English, Letopolis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Khem Birchb. 1992CACanadian basketball player (born 1992)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 372 | #22,398 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 73 | #22,398 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 32 | #4,590 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #4,475 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 17 | #4,970 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 12 | #582 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #47,907 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Khem?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɛm/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Khem a male or female name?
- Khem 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 Khem have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Kem, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Khem most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Khem is densest in Poland — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Khem?
- In Poland, the national register counted 32 people named Khem in 2026, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Khem?
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/khemThe 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, “Khem”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.