Kili
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kili/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kili is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- BRBrazil1 in 7.3M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
265 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Koili in IN India.
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kili 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 265 | 1 in 1.3M | 207 | — | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 29 | 1 in 7.3M | 29 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | 121 | Koili | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | — | 228 | — | 2 |
265 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Kili 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 wyy, (of something which sits on the ground), be turned over; (of a turtle) be turned on its back
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bpz, to cut or trim a piece of wood or leaf-stalk into long, lengthwise strips
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In fj, to turn up stones; uncover an oven; remove a thing from its place; exhume
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In poz-oce-pro, to turn over, to dig by turning over, as rocks
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Finnish, kid, kidling, goatling (young goat)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, Chile (a country in South America)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 322 | #2,613 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 228 | #6,855 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 121 | #25,102 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #72,748 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- How do you pronounce Kili?
- A machine transcription gives /kili/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Kili have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 265 people named Kili, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kili most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kili is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.0 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kili?
- In the United States, the national register counted 265 people named Kili in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kili?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kiliThe 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, “Kili”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.