Kiema

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries

/kiema/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated

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Kiema is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly from the same root as Kiimalainen.

  • FIFinland1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 1.7M
  • DKDenmark1 in 2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

509 people

Record sources
46 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Possibly from the same root as Kiimalainen.

Cited for this meaning 1

Where the surname Kiema is found

(measured from records)

Kiema 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 Kiema is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland—5091 in 11K509—2
SE Sweden—61 in 1.7M6——
DK Denmark—31 in 2M3——
CZ Czechia—11 in 11M1——
FR France————Kiema46
BF Burkina Faso#509———Kiema10

509 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Kiema is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kiéma

  • French (Burkina Faso) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Burkina Faso

    Also written Kiéma

30 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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Mr Kiema,
InformalHi Kiema,

Evidence

(measured from records)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kiema mean, and where does it come from?
Possibly from the same root as Kiimalainen. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Kiema?
In Swahili /kiema/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Kiema?
In Finland, the national register counted about 509 people named Kiema, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden, Denmark and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Kiema most common?
Kiema is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kiema?
In Finland, the national register counted 509 people named Kiema, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Kiema compared with other names?
In Burkina Faso, Kiema is the 509th most common surname of 4,677 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kiema” — the 509th most common surname in Burkina Faso. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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