Kayembe
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kajɑ̃b/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kayembe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 287K(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 7.9K
- AOAngola≈1 in 42K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kayembe 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #407 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 5 | Kayembe | 32 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Kayembe | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Kayembe | 21 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 1 | Kayembe | 4 |
| FR France | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 287K | — | Kayembe | 117 |
| US United States | — | 150 | 1 in 2.2M | 313 | Kayembe | 48 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Serge Kayembeb. 1968CDCongolese politician
- Debora Kayembeb. 1975CDScottish human rights lawyer and political activist
- Joris Kayembeb. 1994BEDR Congolese footballer
- Edo Kayembeb. 1998CDCongolese association football player
- Julie Mukandila KayembeCDMayor of Kamina City
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 313 | #67,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 150 | #116,201 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 5 | #9 |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 1 | #42 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Kayembe?
- A machine transcription gives /kajɑ̃b/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Kayembe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Kayembe in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kayembe.
- How common is the name Kayembe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 150 people named Kayembe in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Kayembe compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Kayembe is the 407th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kayembeThe 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, “Kayembe” — the 407th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.