Caiaphas
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The family name Caiaphas (Aramaic: קַיָּפָא) has several proposed origins
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Caiaphas is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Nigeria.
- NGNigeria
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kayafa in NG Nigeria.
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(measured from records)
The family name Caiaphas (Aramaic: קַיָּפָא) has several proposed origins. It may derive from the Hebrew word for "basket maker," the Aramaic for "as comely," or an Akkadian word meaning "a dell" or "depression".
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caiaphas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | — | Kayafa | 5 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 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: Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Caiaphas is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Christian theology, Caiaphas often represents the corrupt and worldly religious establishment that, in its effort to preserve its own power and national stability, rejected and condemned Jesus. His statement about the expediency of one man dying for the nation is interpreted in the Gospel of John as an unwitting prophecy about the salvific purpose of Jesus' death.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, A Jewish high priest in the first century CE who is said to have organized the plot to kill Jesus.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #146 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Caiaphas mean, and where does it come from?
- The family name Caiaphas (Aramaic: קַיָּפָא) has several proposed origins. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What are other forms of the name Caiaphas?
- In the etymology graph, Kaiaphas is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Caiaphas a male or female name?
- Caiaphas 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 Caiaphas have the most bearers?
- Caiaphas is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled kayafa.
What do you want to know about Caiaphas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caiaphasThe 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, “Caiaphas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.