Qais
given name · Latin script
Meaning: measure, measurement, example, exemplar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/keɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Qais is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the 18th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 532K(measured from records)
- OMOman≈1 in 918
- JOJordan≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 918 (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
measure, measurement, example, exemplar
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Qais 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #236 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1 | Qais | 30 |
| JO Jordan | #468 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Qais | 76 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | Qais | 36 |
| OM Oman | #18 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 918 | — | Qais | 63 |
| YE Yemen | #932 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Qais | 22 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Qais | 59 |
| US United States | — | 625 | 1 in 532K | 624 | Qais | 131 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 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)
Qais is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, measure, measurement, firm, example
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
measuring; comparing;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
To compare,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In tay, boundary
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Qays Ibn al-Mulawwahb. 644SAnot in their usual nameArab poet and the character of the romantic fiction Layla and Majnun
- Qais Abd al-Karimb. 1944IQPalestinian politician
- Kais Saiedb. 1958TNnot in their usual nameTunisian politician, academic and jurist
- Qais Obeidb. 1973ILMilitary commander in Hezbollah (1973–)
- Qais Khazalib. 1974IQleader of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
- Kaies Ghodhbaneb. 1976TNnot in their usual nameTunisian association football player
- Kais Nashefb. 1978ILnot in their usual nameIsrael-Palestinian actor
- Kais Settib. 1985DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor
- Qays ibn Sa'dSAnot in their usual nameRashidun army leader and a companion of Muhammad
- al-Najashi al-Harithinot in their usual namearab poet
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 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 624 | #17,567 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 43 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #17,567 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #311 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Qais?
- A machine transcription gives /keɪ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Qais mean, and where does it come from?
- measure, measurement, example, exemplar Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Qais a male or female name?
- Qais 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.
- What are other forms of the name Qais?
- In the etymology graph, Kais is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Qais have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Qais in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled qais.
- How common is the name Qais?
- In the United States, the national register counted 625 people named Qais in 2020, about 1 in 532 thousand residents.
- How common is Qais compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Qais is the 236th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Qais?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/qaisThe 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, “Qais” — the 236th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.