Kailas
given name · Latin script
Meaning: mountain range, Tibet, China
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- India (India Names Dataset): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Kailas is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- QAQatar≈1 in 9.4Kfew recordsas Kailash(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 12Kfew recordsas Kailash
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 12Kfew recordsas Kailash
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kailas itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 named Kailash, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Qatar, est., as Kailash
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kailash in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan and 6 more and ไกรลาศ in TH Thailand.
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)mountain range, Tibet, China
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kailas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Kailash | 21 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Kailash | 24 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | register #5,341 | ไกรลาศ | 57 |
| US United States | — | 997as Kailash | 1 in 334K | 684 | Kailash | 204 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kailash | 35 |
| QA Qatar | #714 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Kailash | 8 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kailash | 5 |
| OM Oman | #890 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Kailash | 2 |
| BH Bahrain | #512 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Kailash | 5 |
| IN India | #126 | — | — | 456 | Kailash | 233 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)- Kailas Rathodb. 1965TZbadminton player
- Kailas Mahadevanb. 1978DEGerman actor and voice actor
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 1.2K | #2,813 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 175 | #27,750 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 153 | #27,750 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kailas mean, and where does it come from?
- mountain range, Tibet, China Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Is Kailas a male or female name?
- Kailas is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: India (India Names Dataset): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Kailas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Kailash in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kailas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 997 people named Kailash in 2020, about 1 in 334 thousand residents.
- How common is Kailas compared with other names?
- In India, Kailas is the 126th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kailasThe 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, “Kailas” — the 126th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.