Kyàw
surname · Latin script
Kyàw is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country, where it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: Possibly imitative.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 109(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 3.3K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 8.7K
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 Kyàw 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.
- Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 109 (inferred from the name graph)
≈520,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kyaw in MM Myanmar (Burma), MY Malaysia, US United States and 4 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)
Possibly imitative.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kyàw 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #1 | ≈520,000 est. | ≈1 in 109 | 3.3M | Kyaw | 129 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kyaw | 23 |
| CN China | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Kyaw | 14 |
| US United States | — | 4,333as Khoa | 1 in 77K | 4.2K | Kyaw | 188 |
| MY Malaysia | #303 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Kyaw | 35 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | #68,165 | Kyaw | 100 |
| SG Singapore | #295 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Kyaw | 68 |
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: This page features the most common names in Myanmar, published on WorldNames.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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
- What does the name Kyàw mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly imitative. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Kyàw have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 520 thousand people named Kyàw in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kyaw.
- How common is the name Kyàw?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,333 people named Khoa in 2020, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
- How common is Kyàw compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Kyàw is the most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kyàw?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ky%C3%A0wThe 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, “Kyàw” — the most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.