Kaki
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kˈæki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kaki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 15Kas Kaka(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 14K
- NLNetherlands1 in 4Kas Kiki
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 Kaki itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 named Kaka, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kaka in NG Nigeria, EG Egypt, PK Pakistan and 2 more and Kak in NL Netherlands.
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.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaki 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Kaka | 22 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Kaka | 30 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 4,352as Kiki | 1 in 4K | 20K | Kak | 7 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Kaka | 26 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Kaka | 8 |
| DZ Algeria | #948 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Kaka | 10 |
| DK Denmark | — | 237as Kiki | 1 in 25K | 393 | — | — |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Kaki 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 tuw-pro, 1 angry 2 hasty
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In English, a persimmon, more specifically the Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, foot-tapping; beating tempo with the feet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, what?, what kind of?, what sort of?
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, Japanese persimmon, kaki (fruit)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of かき
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)
- Haruka Kakib. 2001JPJapanese female idol and Nogizaka46 member (2001-)
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 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #38,927 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 are other forms of the name Kaki?
- In the etymology graph, Khaki is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kaki?
- A machine transcription gives /kˈæki/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Kaki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Kaka in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kaki?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,352 people named Kiki, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Kaki compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Kaki is the 948th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kaki?
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/kakiThe 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, “Kaki” — the 948th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.