Kayam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Cuerno
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəiəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kayam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 375K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.6M
- CACanada≈1 in 3M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 375K (inferred from the name graph)
47 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Cuerno
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kayam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 47 | 1 in 4.5M | 47 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 12M | listed | Kayam | 43 |
| DE Germany | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | — | Kayam | 19 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 21M | — | Kayam | 14 |
| CA Canada | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Kayam | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 6M | — | Kayam | 8 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | Kayam | 1 |
47 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Kayam is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tsg, a tree: Inocarpus fagifera
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In tbk, to play, relax
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.
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 11 | #61,476 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Kayam mean, and where does it come from?
- Cuerno Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Kayam?
- A machine transcription gives /kəiəm/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Kayam a male or female name?
- Kayam 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 Kayam have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 47 people named Kayam, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kayam most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kayam is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 375 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kayam?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 47 people named Kayam in 2022, about 1 in 4.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kayam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kayamThe 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, “Kayam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.