Kd

loc · Latin script

Meaning: initialism of Kapal Diraja (ship prefix for the Royal Malaysian Navy)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Kd is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • NLNetherlands

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
169 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled K-D 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)

initialism of Kapal Diraja (ship prefix for the Royal Malaysian Navy)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kd counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Kd is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—7K-D169
NL Netherlands——Kd9
CA Canada—1—36
ID Indonesia—listed—2

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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kd is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Kď

  • Arabic surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Tunisia, Syria

    Also written K'D, Ķď, Kď, Ķ'Ď, K-D

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written K-D

  • Portuguese name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Brazil

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written K'D, K-D, Ķď

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written K'D, K-D

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written K-D

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kd is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kr, magi nia , 8. the maker of such calabashes

    as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)

  • In Swedish, abbreviation of Kristdemokraterna (“Christian Democrats”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, abbreviation of cadê (“where”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, abbreviation of Kristillisdemokraatit (in Finland) the Christian Democrats (a political party).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Abbreviation of khaki drill, a form of British military uniform made of cotton.

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kd under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kd mean, and where does it come from?
initialism of Kapal Diraja (ship prefix for the Royal Malaysian Navy) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Kd have the most bearers?
Kd is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled k-d.

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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, “Kd”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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