Khi
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Khi is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 381K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 9.9Kas Key
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 11Kas Kui
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 Khi 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 381K (inferred from the name graph)
33,501 named Key, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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 Kui in US United States, MY Malaysia, CN China and 2 more.
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.
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khi 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.
33,501 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling key. 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 2010; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Khi is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative spelling of chi (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ), the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Khoisan languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, chi; the Greek letter Χ (lowercase χ)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, chi (Greek letter)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zom, necklace
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In acn, to call
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)
- Qi Jingcunnot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 55527
- Qi Shijiaonot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 344240
- Qi Zhennot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 344241
- Qi Zhiweinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 344242
- Qi Xunot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 344243
- Qi Qiniannot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 123593
- Qi Weinot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 388086
- Qi Zhaonot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 388087
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #730 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Khi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 34 thousand people named Key, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Khi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,501 people named Key in 2010, about 1 in 9.9 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Khi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khiThe 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, “Khi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.