Kido

surname · Latin script

Meaning: variously written, usually with characters meaning ‘wooden door’

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

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

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 449K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 588K
  • CZCzechia1 in 595K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

2,956 people

Sources
15 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 449K (inferred from the name graph)

India

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

variously written, usually with characters meaning ‘wooden door’. A less usual rendering is ‘castle door’. It is found in western Japan. One family of samurai came from Suo (now part ofYamaguchi prefecture).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kido 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 Kido is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India2,9561 in 449K3KKido15
US United States4851 in 686K485Kido7
BR Brazil3601 in 588K360——
PL Poland271 in 1.4M17——
CZ Czechia181 in 595K18——
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6——

2,956 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Kido is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, India, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch, Afrikaans

    Also written Kîdó, Kidō

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Mexico, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Kidó

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kidō

55 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kido is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kne, thunder

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In aa, tribe

    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)

18001850190019502000Kido Takayoshi, b. 1833Koichi Kido, b. 1889Shirō Kido, b. 1894Osamu Kido, b. 1950Katsuhiko Kido, b. 1961Daisuke Kido, b. 1970Yūji Kido, b. 1978Markis Kido, b. 1984Ayaka Kido, b. 1984Ibuki Kido, b. 1997

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 25 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Kido
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—3K#2,313
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010485#44,356
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020448#50,441
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000375#52,077
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—360#22,718
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—18#56,253
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202617—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—17#98,618
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202610—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—10#134,934
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20246#89,778
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—5#27,490

Reference works 4

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

Where does the name Kido come from?
variously written, usually with characters meaning ‘wooden door’. A less usual rendering is ‘castle door’. It is found in western Japan. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Kido mean?
Recorded meaning: variously written, usually with characters meaning ‘wooden door’.
In which country does Kido have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Kido, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kido.
Where is Kido most common?
Kido is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 449 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kido?
In India, the national register counted 2,956 people named Kido, about 1 in 449 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, “Kido”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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