Ká
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The name of the Latin-script letter K/k
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Ká is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia≈1 in 18Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 67K
- FIFinland1 in 232K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
795 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ká is found
(measured from records)Ká 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.
795 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)Ká is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In jpx-pro, mosquito
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In hnn, you (singular); occurs mainly in certain set phrases; in all of them, however, _ká_ may be replaced by the more frequently used _káwu_
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In twf, mommy (used by very young children to mother)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kix, traditional basket made from bamboo or cane.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, enclosure, home, clan, family
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)- Huiyuanb. 334CNnot in their usual nameChinese Buddhist monk (334–416)
- Jia Qinglinb. 1940CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
- Jia Zhangkeb. 1970CNnot in their usual nameChinese film director and screenwriter (born 1970)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ká mean, and where does it come from?
- The name of the Latin-script letter K/k. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ká?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 795 people named Ká, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain, Czechia, Brazil and Slovakia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ká?
- In the United States, the national register counted 795 people named Ká in 2010, about 1 in 418 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ká?
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/k%C3%A1The 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, “Ká”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.