Kha
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kha is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Hán-Việt: kha, có thể/đáng; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Định Viễn quận vương.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 96K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 152K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈82,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hán-Việt: kha, có thể/đáng; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Định Viễn quận vương.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kha 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.
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 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the vn-kaggle-given register. 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)
Kha 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 Vietnamese, unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In sit-pro, to go, come
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Khasi.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, The name of the Cyrillic script letter Х / х.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-phu, to draw (water)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Kwa Geok Choob. 1920SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean lawyer (1920-2010)
- Ko Chun-hsiungb. 1945TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor
- Ke Linglingb. 1951CNnot in their usual namefirst wife of Xi Jinping (1979-1982)
- Blackie Kob. 1953TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor and film director (1953-2003)
- Ko Wen-jeb. 1959TWnot in their usual namephysician and former Mayor of Taipei
- Lawrence Kob. 1977TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor, singer
- Giddens Kob. 1978TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese writer and director
- Kevin Kob. 1983TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese film director (1983-)
- Alice Keb. 1985TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress
- Ko Chen-tungb. 1991TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor and singer
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 33 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,257 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #22,999 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 950 | #10,160 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 376 | #10,160 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 65 | #4,243 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 64 | #4,215 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 19 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 8 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kha mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hán-Việt: kha, có thể/đáng; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Định Viễn quận vương.
- In which country does Kha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Kha in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,326 people named Kha in 2020, about 1 in 251 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, “Kha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.