Kesa

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A robe worn by Buddhist monks and nuns

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

Kesa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 150K(measured from records)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 705K
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 972K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

241 people, 2020

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 150K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A robe worn by Buddhist monks and nuns.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kesa 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.

Where Kesa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2411 in 1.4M232Kesa31
BR Brazil311 in 6.8M31——
AU Australia≈18 est.≈1 in 1.4M1——
SG Singapore≈6 est.≈1 in 972K—Kesa2
GY Guyana51 in 150K5——
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 705K151—4

241 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the ee-stat-nimed 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Keša, Keśa

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Keša

  • Finnish name4 spellings in the group

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Kesä

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, India, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Keša

  • Thai surname55 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written กาสา, เกษา, กษา, กาซา, Kasa

  • English surname37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Languages: English, Hindi, Bangla

    Also written Case, Kesha, Kesh, Kesu, Casè

40 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)

Kesa 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.

  • a Rsi (P); Krsna (N); Varuna (K); Visnu (K)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In tkp, green, yellow-green, with suggestion of off-color; greyish-green

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In iba, fire ant; Solenopsis spp. (tropical fire ants)

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

  • In Hawaiian, The name of the Latin-script letter X/x.

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

  • In Filipino, pronunciation spelling of kaysa

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Kesa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—151#390
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—123#593
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—22#183,107

Reference works 2

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 Kesa mean, and where does it come from?
A robe worn by Buddhist monks and nuns. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Kesa a male or female name?
Kesa is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Kesa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 241 people named Kesa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kesa.
Where is Kesa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kesa is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 150 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kesa?
In the United States, the national register counted 241 people named Kesa in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.

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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, “Kesa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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