Kazimir
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Croatian: a male given name, equivalent to English Casimir
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaz̪imir/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kazimir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 9.7K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 18K
- CZCzechia1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kazimir 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,712 named Casimir, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Casimir in US United States.
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)
from the personal name Kazimir, a name of Slavic origin meaning ‘destroyer of peace’ (see Casimir, and compare Polish Kazmierczak).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kazimir is read(measured from records)
Kazimir is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Croatian45%
a male given name, equivalent to English Casimir
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English25%
Slavic: the great destroyer.
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- Ukrainian7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kazimir in Ukrainian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Kazimir, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kazimir 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 | — | 1,712as Casimir | 1 in 194K | 2.2K | Casimir | 32 |
| FI Finland | — | 658as Casimir | 1 in 8.5K | 708 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 559as Casimir | 1 in 31K | 559 | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | #563 | 437 | 1 in 9.7K | 437 | Kazimir | 30 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 426 | 1 in 25K | 426 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 118 | 1 in 18K | 118 | Kazimir | 5 |
1,712 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); MVČR — living population register 2017; SURS — resident population given 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)
Kazimir is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the personal name Kazimir, a name of Slavic origin meaning ‘destroyer of peace’ (see Casimir, and compare Polish Kazmierczak).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Variantes: Keiron, Kerr, Kerry, Keyr, Kieran, Kieron
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Great Destroyer
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In Russian, ancient Polish name.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Kazimierz Chrzczonowiczb. 1794BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian architect (1794-1871)
- Kazimir Mordasevichb. 1859Belarusian painter (1859-?)
- Klymentiy Sheptytskyb. 1869UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian Catholic monk and political prisoner (1869–1951)
- Kazimierz Malewiczb. 1878UAnot in their usual nameRussian avant-garde artist of Polish ancestry. Founder of the Suprematist movement (1879–1935)
- Kazimir Zakrajšekb. 1878USAmerican writer
- Kazimir Ostrogovićb. 1907HRCroatian architect (1907–1965)
- Kazymyr Sikorskyb. 1935UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian sculptor (1935-2012)
- Kazimir Popkonstantinovb. 1942BGBulgarian archaeologist and university teacher
- Kazimir Strzepekb. 1978UScartoonist
- Kazimir Kolarb. 1979SISlovenian writer
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)
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 40 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 217 | #81,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 201 | #91,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 199 | #97,730 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 11 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 are other forms of the name Kazimir?
- In the etymology graph, Kazimierz, Casimir and Kasimir are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Kazimir mean?
- In Croatian, a male given name, equivalent to English Casimir
- Where does the name Kazimir come from?
- from the personal name Kazimir, a name of Slavic origin meaning ‘destroyer of peace’ (see Casimir, and compare Polish Kazmierczak). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kazimir?
- A machine transcription gives /kaz̪imir/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Kazimir a male or female name?
- Kazimir 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 Kazimir have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Casimir, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kazimir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kazimir is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 9.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kazimir?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 437 people named Kazimir in 2021, about 1 in 9.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Kazimir compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Kazimir is the 563rd most common given name of 14,066 given names 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/kazimirThe 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, “Kazimir” — the 563rd most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.