KaWon
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kɑwɒn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
KaWon is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 1.9M
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 2.6M
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)
- Record sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)
174 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)KaWon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 174 | 1 in 1.9M | 155 | KaWon | 75 |
| KR South Korea | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | KaWon | 18 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 32M | listed | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | KaWon | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 21M | — | KaWon | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | KaWon | 7 |
| LV Latvia | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
174 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling kawon. 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; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register. 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)KaWon 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 Polish, watermelon (any plant of the genus Citrullus)
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.
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 155 | #41,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 19 | #41,825 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 7 | — |
Reference works 1
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 KaWon?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑwɒn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is KaWon a male or female name?
- KaWon is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does KaWon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 174 people named KaWon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled KaWon.
- Where is KaWon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, KaWon is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 1.9 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name KaWon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 174 people named KaWon in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kawonThe 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, “KaWon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.