K-A

surname · Latin script

K-A is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 795 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • 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)

795 people, 2010

Record sources
54 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ká in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia, HU Hungary.

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)
recorded in Korean

四 川 马 边 严 族 黑 匡 家 支 , 即 沈 拍 氏 , 见 《四 川 贵州 琐 族 社会 历史 调查 》(751) 。 aby Gr 2B) 水 能 shuilong

Cited for this meaning 6

Where the surname K-A is found

(measured from records)

K-A 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.

Where K-A is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7951 in 418K2.3K—24
ES Spain7511 in 67K751—4
CZ Czechia≈590 est.≈1 in 18K—Ká35
BR Brazil≈75 est.≈1 in 2.8M61——
SK Slovakia≈58 est.≈1 in 94K—Ká22
HU Hungary≈34 est.≈1 in 279K—Ká10
FI Finland241 in 232K119——

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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

K-A is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Dutch given name48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Belgium, United States, Netherlands, Germany

    Languages: Dutch, English, German

    Also written Ka, Kae, Kä, Kã, Ka'

  • French surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Tunisia, Algeria, Senegal

    Also written Kà, Kâ, Kä, Ka, K'A

  • Arabic surname30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Ka, Kä, Kâ, Kà, Ķä

  • Spanish surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Paraguay, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ka, K'A, Kà, Kä, Ká

  • Japanese name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan

    Also written Ka, Kà, Kä, Ká, Ķa

  • Korean surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, Philippines, United States, France

    Also written 가, 카, Ga, Kà, Kâ

  • Hindi given name54 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States, Bangladesh

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Khmer

    Also written Ku, କୃ, Ko, କିୁ, କୁି

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Ká, Ką, Kå, Kä, Ka

  • Chinese name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Taiwan, Hong Kong

    Also written Ka, Ká, Kâ, Kà, K'A

10 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists K-A under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname K-A?
In the United States, the national register counted about 795 people named K-A, 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 K-A?
In the United States, the national register counted 795 people named K-A in 2010, about 1 in 418 thousand residents.

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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, “K-A” — ranked 5009th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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