Kaie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete form of key
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 619K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 850K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.8M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 619K (inferred from the name graph)
117 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete form of key.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaie 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.
117 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the ee-stat-nimed register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Kaie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, jackdaw, particularly western jackdaw Corvus monedula
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kaie Partsb. 1940EEEstonian artist (born 1940)
- Kaie Pappelb. 1942EEEstonian biochemist (born 1942)
- Kaie Mihkelsonb. 1948EEEstonian actress (born 1948)
- Kaie Ritslaidb. 1953EEEstonian chemist (born 1953)
- Kaie Kõrbb. 1961EEEstonian ballet dancer (born 1961)
- Kaie-Ene Rääkb. 1961EEEstonian film producer and editor (born 1961)
- Kaie Holmb. 1967EEEstonian librarian (born 1967)
- Kaie Kelloughb. 1975CACanadian writer and poet
- Kaie Kotovb. 1978EEEstonian semiotician (born 1978)
- Kaie Kandb. 1984EEEstonian athletics competitor (born 1984)
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 1.1K | #147 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 119 | #2,569 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 117 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 115 | #36,897 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 89 | #20,148 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 80 | #40,260 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 80 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 46 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 37 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 34 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 26 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #16,844 |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Kaie mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of key. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kaie?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Kathleen and Catherine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kaie?
- A machine transcription gives /kəi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kaie a male or female name?
- Kaie 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 Kaie have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 117 people named Kaie, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaie is densest in Finland — about 1 in 619 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kaie?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 117 people named Kaie in 2022, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kaie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaieThe 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, “Kaie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.