Kaai
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 940K(measured from records)
- KEKenya≈1 in 151K
- NLNetherlands1 in 393K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 151K (inferred from the name graph)
≈360 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kenya, 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.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Kaai | 5 |
| US United States | 354 | 1 in 940K | 378 | Kaai | 95 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Kaai | 3 |
| PH Philippines | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Kaai | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 44 | 1 in 393K | 44 | Kaai | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Kaai | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 582K | — | Kaai | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Kaai is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, alternative form of kade
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dag, to dawn (next day) KO kaai bieyu, biegu kaai
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 378 | #58,068 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 354 | #57,516 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 342 | #55,971 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 44 | #33,384 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kaai?
- A machine transcription gives /kəaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kaai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 355 people named Kaai in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaai.
- How common is the name Kaai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 354 people named Kaai in 2010, about 1 in 940 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kaai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaaiThe 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, “Kaai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.