Kedir
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kedir is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 532(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 162K
- NONorway≈1 in 719K
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 Kedir 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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 532 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ከድር in ET Ethiopia.
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)
Kedir 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 532 | — | ከድር | 35 |
| AL Albania | 180as Kadire | 1 in 17K | 180 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 420 | — | 79 |
| SE Sweden | 63 | 1 in 162K | 63 | — | 3 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 812K | listed | — | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | 12as Kadire | 1 in 175K | 12 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 719K | 116 | — | 10 |
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 2020; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)
- Mohamed Kedirb. 1954ETathletics competitor
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 420 | #53,213 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 184 | #98,553 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 116 | #13,529 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #26,441 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- 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 Kedir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 203 thousand people named Kedir in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ከድር.
- How common is the name Kedir?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 63 people named Kedir, about 1 in 162 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kedir?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kedirThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kedir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.