Kedem
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kedem is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 4.2Kas קדם(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 809Kas Kadam
- ATAustria≈1 in 377K
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 Kedem 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 377K (inferred from the name graph)
5,384 named Kadam
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled קדם in IL Israel, RO Romania, EG Egypt and Kadam in IN India.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kedem 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 5,384as Kadam | 1 in 246K | 5.4K | Kadam | 15 |
| IL Israel | #432 | 2,072as קדם | 1 in 4.2K | 2.1K | קדם | 63 |
| US United States | — | 411as Kadam | 1 in 809K | 962 | Kedem | 92 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | קדם | 3 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | קדם | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 54as Kadam | 1 in 189K | 54 | Kedem | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 40as Kadam | 1 in 137K | 40 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 28as Kadam | 1 in 199K | 28 | Kedem | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Kedem | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | Kedem | 3 |
5,384 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Ora Kedemb. 1924ILAustrian-Israeli chemist
- Benjamin Kedemb. 1944USAmerican statistician
- Shlomit Kedemb. 1946ILIsraeli translator
- Irit Kedemb. 1958ILIsraeli writer
- Rinat Kedemb. 1965USAmerican mathematician
- Dikla KedemILIsraeli fashion designer
- Gershon KedemUSPh.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1977
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 134 | #131,805 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 113 | #21,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 103 | #157,234 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 47 | #46,408 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #44,805 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #72,596 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Kedem have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Kadam, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kedem?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Kedem in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
- How common is Kedem compared with other names?
- In Israel, Kedem is the 432nd most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kedem?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kedemThe 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, “Kedem” — the 432nd most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.