Kasi
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kasi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: the wife of Sudeva (P); Bhavani (N); Kali (N);.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia≈1 in 35K
- UGUganda≈1 in 85K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
2,292 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
the wife of Sudeva (P); Bhavani (N); Kali (N);
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kasi 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.
2,292 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kasi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Sanskrit: ‘shining’; a name of Varanasi (Benares), most sacred Hindu city on the Ganges.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
a king (P)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
one of the seven holy Hindu cities
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In dag, 1. clean 2. spotless 3. pure 4. holy 5. ShiaKasi. Eloly Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity, in Christian doctrine. (Prot. usage, see vuhim )
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In jpx-pro, Quercus acuta Thunb.
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Mohammed Beck Hadjetlachéb. 1868SEnot in their usual namecircassian spy (1868–1929)
- Kasi Lemmonsb. 1961USAmerican actress and director
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 323 | #66,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 200 | #91,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 127 | #124,872 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 12 | #17,855 |
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #246 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Kasi mean, and where does it come from?
- the wife of Sudeva (P); Bhavani (N); Kali (N); Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Is Kasi a male or female name?
- Kasi 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.
- What are other forms of the name Kasi?
- In the etymology graph, Kashi is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kasi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Kasi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kasi.
- How common is the name Kasi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,292 people named Kasi in 2020, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kasi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kasiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kasi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.