Kafai

Name: Kafai: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10
License: https://mondonomo.ai/tos#rights

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kafai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hong Kong than in any other country.

rarermore common

HKHong Kong≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
MYMalaysia≈1 in 779K
TWTaiwan≈1 in 1.4M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Hong Kong (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 46 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Ka-Fai

Locally spelled Ka-Fai in CN China.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kafai 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.

Where Kafai is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
HK Hong Kong	≈450 est.	≈1 in 16K	—	Kafai	8
CN China	≈240 est.	≈1 in 5.8M	—	Ka-Fai	4
MY Malaysia	≈42 est.	≈1 in 779K	—	Kafai	3
US United States	≈33 est.	≈1 in 10M	listed	Kafai	46
TW Taiwan	≈16 est.	≈1 in 1.4M	—	Kafai	3
NL Netherlands	≈11 est.	≈1 in 1.6M	—	Kafai	5
CH Switzerland	≈4 est.	≈1 in 1.9M	3	—	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: 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kafai is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish given name5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Venezuela
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Ka-Fai, Kafaï
Arabic name2 spellings in the group
Also written Kafaï
a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Kafaï, Ka-Fai
Thai given name2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Hong Kong
Also written คาไฝ
French name2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France
Also written Kafaï

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kafai under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Kafai a male or female name?: Kafai 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.
In which country does Kafai have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 448 people named Kafai in Hong Kong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kafai.
How common is the name Kafai?: Mondonomo estimates about 450 people in Hong Kong have Kafai as their first given name, about 1 in 16 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

What do you want to know about Kafai?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kafai

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Kafai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)