Kaire
given name · Latin script
Meaning: May the little one return
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kaire is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 35K
- FIFinland1 in 348K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈820 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
May the little one return.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaire 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Kaire | 5 |
| SN Senegal | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 1 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 196 | 1 in 1.7M | 110 | Kaire | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 169 | 1 in 1.3M | 169 | Kaire | 34 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Kaire | 7 |
| FI Finland | 16 | 1 in 348K | 141 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 654K | 28 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); 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)
Kaire is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Kairums
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Kaire Talib. 1960EEEstonian textile artist (born 1960)
- Kaire Indriksonb. 1961EEEstonian swimmer, coach and sports pedagogue (born 1961)
- Kaire Innosb. 1970EEEstonian medical researcher, epidemiologist (born 1970)
- Kaire Kaljurandb. 1974EEEstonian footballer (born 1974)
- Kaire Vilgatsb. 1976EEEstonian singer (born 1976)
- Kaire Maimetsb. 1977EEEstonian semiotician and musicologist (born 1977)
- Kaire Oltb. 1979EEEstonian textile artist (born 1979)
- Kaire Palmarub. 1984EEEstonian football player (born 1984)
- Kaire Leibakb. 1988EEEstonian athletics competitor (born 1988)
- Kaire HendriksonEEEstonian make-up artist (fl. 2005-)
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 32 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 169 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 146 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 141 | #2,279 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 137 | #31,155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 110 | #38,893 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 86 | #38,893 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 86 | #28,646 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 86 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 83 | #28,646 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 77 | #26,421 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 72 | #23,159 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 60 | — |
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
- What does the name Kaire mean, and where does it come from?
- May the little one return. Recorded by The African book of names.
- Is Kaire a male or female name?
- Kaire is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kaire have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 820 people named Kaire in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaire.
- How common is the name Kaire?
- In the United States, the national register counted 196 people named Kaire in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kaire?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaireThe 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, “Kaire”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.