Kaae
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kaae is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 6.1Kas Kaye(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 13Kas Kaye
- CNChina≈1 in 13Kas Kaye
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 Kaae 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 437 (measured from records)
- 1 in 638 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named Kaye, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary, as Gréta
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kaye in US United States, PH Philippines, NZ New Zealand and 1 more, Gaye in SE Sweden, NO Norway and Kia in FI Finland.
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)
Kaae 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Kaye | 16 |
| US United States | #666 | 22,240as Greta | 1 in 15K | 34K | Kaye | 437 |
| HU Hungary | — | 15,308as Gréta | 1 in 638 | 15K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 11,798as Greta | 1 in 865 | 12K | Gaye | 20 |
| PH Philippines | #508 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Kaye | 131 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,672as Kia | 1 in 3.3K | 4.4K | Kia | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,597as Greta | 1 in 3.4K | 5.2K | Gaye | 16 |
| AL Albania | — | 980as Greta | 1 in 3.1K | 980 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | #290 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 30 | Kaye | 94 |
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 2010; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Peer Kaaeb. 1965Danish author
- Kaspar KaaeDanish composer
- Mathias Emil KaaeDanish entomologist
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 168 | #111,467 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 148 | #110,523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 142 | #121,590 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #34,734 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #44,552 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Kaae have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Kaye in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaae most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kaae itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Hungary's: the national register counts about 1 in 638 people named Gréta.
- How common is the name Kaae?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,240 people named Greta in 2020, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Kaae compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Kaae is the 290th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kaae?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaaeThe 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, “Kaae” — the 290th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.