Khaemba
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch", 2022
/xɛmbɑ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Khaemba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 23Mfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 11Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Khaemba
- Swahili:/xɛmbɑ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Khaemba is found
(measured from records)Khaemba 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #179 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 1 | Khaemba | 34 |
| US United States | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 23M | listed | Khaemba | 27 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Khaemba | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 25M | — | Khaemba | 6 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Khaemba | 6 |
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: Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Khaemba?
- In Swahili /xɛmbɑ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Khaemba?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Khaemba in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khaemba. After it come United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Khaemba?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17,000 people in Kenya have Khaemba as their first surname, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Khaemba compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Khaemba is the 179th most common surname of 179,147 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Khaemba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khaembaThe 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, “Khaemba” — ranked 581st in Kenya (Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch"). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.