Khakhay

surname · Latin script

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

Khakhay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • THThailand≈1 in 44Kas ค้าขาย(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States≈1 in 232M
  • SESweden1 in 268Kas Kakai

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 Khakhay 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.

Thailand (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,600 named ค้าขาย, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
60 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 232M (inferred from the name graph)

United States, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ค้าขายThai(measured from records)
KakaiLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled ค้าขาย in TH Thailand.

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)

Khakhay 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 Khakhay is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand≈1,600 est.≈1 in 44K#24,910ค้าขาย60
SE Sweden38as Kakai1 in 268K38—1
NL Netherlands7as Kakay1 in 2.5M7——
CH Switzerland6as Kakai1 in 1.4M6——
DK Denmark5as Kakai1 in 1.2M5——
BE Belgium5as Kakay1 in 2.3M5——
US United States≈1 est.≈1 in 232MlistedKhakhay4

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Khakhay
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

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

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Khakhay have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named ค้าขาย in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Khakhay?
In Sweden, the national register counted 38 people named Kakai, about 1 in 268 thousand 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, “Khakhay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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