Kaung
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəəŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaung is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 617(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 19K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 73K
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.
- Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 617 (inferred from the name graph)
≈92,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Kaung 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) | #11 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 617 | listed | Kaung | 103 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Kaung | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Kaung | 21 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Kaung | 36 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 481K | — | Kaung | 54 |
| SE Sweden | — | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | 2 |
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: the mm-github-names register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Kaung is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, to confine, to impoverish, exhausted | a weary, poor, sad, in extremities
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to lift, to raise with hand, to oppose to resist, to protect, to store up
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a pair, to match, to oppose, to dislike ' strong
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, at extremities
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, half asleep
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In wuu, Rectum
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
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.
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #43,964 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | Myanmar romanized given names (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kaung?
- A machine transcription gives /kəəŋ/ (IPA) for Burmese.
- Is Kaung a male or female name?
- Kaung is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kaung have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 92 thousand people named Kaung in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaung.
- How common is the name Kaung?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6 people named Kaung, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Kaung compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Kaung is the 11th most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kaung?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaungThe 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, “Kaung” — the 11th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.