Khoi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Khoekhoe
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xɔj˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Khoi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 116K
- ISIceland1 in 29K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈61,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of Khoekhoe.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khoi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #134 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Khoi | 143 |
| US United States | — | 2,880 | 1 in 116K | 2.7K | Khoi | 130 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 391K | — | Khoi | 30 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Khoi | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Khoi | 17 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 109K | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 12 | 1 in 29K | 12 | — | — |
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: the vn-kaggle-given register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Khoi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, Khoekhoe, Khoikhoi, Khoi (person)
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)
- Le Van Khoib. 1750VNVietnamese general
- Ngô Đình Khôib. 1885Vietnamese politician (1885-1945)
- Phan Khôib. 1887VNNorth Vietnamese intellectual leader
- Lê Thành Khôib. 1923VNVietnamese-French scientist in education and economics, author of history and UNESCO consultant
- Phạm Ngọc Khôib. 1964VNVietnamese musician, conductor
- Khoi Vinhb. 1971VNAmerican graphic designer
- Mai Khôib. 1983VNVietnamese singer, artist and political activist
- Trần Duy Khôib. 1997VNVietnamese swimmer
- Nguyễn Anh Khôib. 2002VNVietnamese chess player
- Khoi Youngb. 2002USgymnast
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #5,778 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 173 | #5,778 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 22 | — |
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
- What does the name Khoi mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Khoekhoe. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Khoi?
- A machine transcription gives /xɔj˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Khoi a male or female name?
- Khoi is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Khoi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 61 thousand people named Khoi in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khoi.
- How common is the name Khoi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,880 people named Khoi in 2020, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
- How common is Khoi compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Khoi is the 134th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khoiThe 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, “Khoi” — the 134th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.