KiD

org · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
  • GDGrenada1 in 113K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 179K

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)

118 people, 2010

Sources
125 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)

Grenada

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Kíd in ZA South Africa, JM Jamaica.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

KiD 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 KiD is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1181 in 2.8M2.7KKiD125
GB United Kingdom≈54 est.≈1 in 1.2Mlisted—44
CH Switzerland471 in 179K47—7
BR Brazil331 in 6.4M86—1
ZA South Africa≈18 est.≈1 in 3.1M—Kíd10
JM Jamaica≈10 est.≈1 in 290K—Kíd4
SE Sweden≈9 est.≈1 in 1.2M500—12
DK Denmark≈6 est.≈1 in 1.1M3—1
GD Grenada11 in 113K1——

118 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling kid. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)

KiD is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil

    Also written Kîd, Kïd, Kḭḓ, Kįd, Kìd

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Kîd, Kíd, Kïd, Kìd

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Kîd, Kįd, Kìd, Kíd, Kïd

  • Thai name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written ขีด, Khidi

46 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Apache Kid, b. 1860Mary Kid, b. 1904Zippy Kid, b. 1981

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 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting KiD
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.7K#11,106
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010118#141,140
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000110#139,757
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202447#19,565
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—33#139,729
GD GrenadaGrenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 202520251#222
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1#82,985
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 KiD have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 118 people named KiD, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled KiD.
Where is KiD most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, KiD is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 113 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name KiD?
In the United States, the national register counted 118 people named KiD in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 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, “KiD”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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