Kaïf
surname · Latin script
Kaïf is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: intoxication; mood;.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 8.3M
- INIndia1 in 53M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)
25 people
Reference-verified
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kaif in FR France, IN India.
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)
intoxication; mood;
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaïf 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 25 | 1 in 53M | 25 | Kaif | 4 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Kaif | 24 |
| US United States | — | — | 6 | — | 6 |
25 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kaïf mean, and where does it come from?
- intoxication; mood; Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- In which country does Kaïf have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 25 people named Kaïf, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaif.
- Where is Kaïf most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaïf is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.8 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kaïf?
- In India, the national register counted 25 people named Kaïf, about 1 in 53 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ka%C3%AFfThe 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, “Kaïf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.