Kayes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Maroc; inteligente / intelligent
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkeɪz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kayes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 720K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
- CZCzechia1 in 11M
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 Kayes 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 720K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 named কায়েস, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Maroc; inteligente / intelligent
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kayes 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #362 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Kayes | 54 |
| US United States | — | 462 | 1 in 720K | 527 | Kayes | 22 |
| IN India | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 9M | 1 | Kayes | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Kayes 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 English, patronymic from Kay 5.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
long-awaited child.
as a nameAfrican Names
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)
- Kerry Kayesb. 1950British bodybuilder
- Imrul Kayesb. 1987BDBangladeshi cricketer
- Joe Kayesb. 1991AUAustralian water polo player
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 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 527 | #44,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 489 | #41,859 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 462 | #46,138 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #117,808 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #179,570 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #202,908 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kayes mean, and where does it come from?
- Maroc; inteligente / intelligent Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Kayes?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkeɪz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kayes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named কায়েস in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kayes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kayes is densest in the United States — about 1 in 720 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kayes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 462 people named Kayes in 2010, about 1 in 720 thousand residents.
- How common is Kayes compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Kayes is the 362nd most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kayesThe 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, “Kayes” — the 362nd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.