Kaju
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəʒu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaju is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 627K(measured from records)
- JPJapan≈1 in 651K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.1M
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.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 627K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia
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.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaju 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 651K | — | Kaju | 13 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Kaju | 7 |
| US United States | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 29M | — | Kaju | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Kaju | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Kaju | 5 |
| LV Latvia | 3 | 1 in 627K | 3 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 1 | 1 in 10M | 1 | — | — |
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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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)
Kaju is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, to bump the head in salutation, to to take leave of a superior
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Czech, first-person singular present indicative of kát
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, third-person plural present of kajati
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pmf, tree, shrub, wood, plant
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Turkish, cashew, cashew nut
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ppk, wood; tree; woods
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Urmas Kajub. 1956EEEstonian lawyer and banker (1956-2014)
- Ramon Kajub. 1973EEEstonian athletics competitor (born 1973)
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 3 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 3 | #13,040 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #64,550 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Kaju?
- A machine transcription gives /kəʒu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Kaju a male or female name?
- Kaju 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 Kaju have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 193 people named Kaju in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaju.
- Where is Kaju most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaju is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 627 thousand people — even though Japan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kaju?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 3 people named Kaju, about 1 in 627 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kaju?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kajuThe 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, “Kaju”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.