Kahya
surname · Latin script
Meaning: butler
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kahjˈa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kahya is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 6.9K
- MKNorth Macedonia≈1 in 3.7K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
North Macedonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
butler
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kahya 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #502 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Kahya | 79 |
| SY Syria | #865 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Kahya | 7 |
| MK North Macedonia | #697 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Kahya | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 322 | 1 in 36K | 397 | Kahya | 13 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Kahya | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Kahya | 6 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Göksel Kahyab. 1963TRTurkish general
- Ekrem Kahyab. 1978NLTurkish-Dutch association football player (born 1978)
- Ramazan Kahyab. 1984TRTurkish association football player (born 1984)
- Ufuk Kahyab. 1988NLpolitician from the Netherlands
- Uğur KahyaTRTurkish researcher
- Ercan KahyaTRTurkish researcher
- Emre Onur KahyaTRTurkish academic
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 397 | #4,038 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 322 | #5,089 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Kahya mean, and where does it come from?
- butler Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kahya?
- A machine transcription gives /kahjˈa/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Kahya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Kahya in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kahya.
- How common is the name Kahya?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 322 people named Kahya in 2008, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Kahya compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kahya is the 502nd most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kahyaThe 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, “Kahya” — the 502nd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.