Kimhi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: flour seller, miller; Istanbul, London, Safed, Smyrna, Salonika, Tunis, Monastir, Libya

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

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

rarermore common
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 182K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 830K

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Israel (inferred from the name graph)

≈670 people, est.

Sources
51 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Israel, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

flour seller, miller; Istanbul, London, Safed, Smyrna, Salonika, Tunis, Monastir, Libya

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kimhi 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 Kimhi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IL Israel≈670 est.≈1 in 13K—Kimhi19
US United States≈49 est.≈1 in 6.7MlistedKimhi51
FR France≈16 est.≈1 in 4.2M—Kimhi22
DE Germany≈13 est.≈1 in 6.1M—Kimhi7
AT Austria≈11 est.≈1 in 830K—Kimhi4
CY Cyprus≈7 est.≈1 in 182K—Kimhi4
AU Australia≈4 est.≈1 in 6M—Kimhi8

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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)

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

  • Hebrew surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Bulgaria, Iran, Greece

    Also written קמחי, Kimchi, Ḳimḥi

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Israel, Yemen

    Also written Kimḥi

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḳimḥi, Kīmḥī, Kimḥi

27 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)

Kimhi 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.

  • scribe; writer

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

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)

100012001400160018002000Joseph Kimhi, b. 1105Moses Kimhi, b. 1127David Kimhi, b. 1160Dov Kimchi, b. 1889Yigal Kimchi, b. 1915Rina Kimche, b. 1934Yaʻaḳov Ḳimḥi, b. 1947Shaul Kimhi, b. 1948Alona Kimhi, b. 1963Gilad Kimchi, b. 1982

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 3 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Kimhi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Kimhi mean, and where does it come from?
flour seller, miller; Istanbul, London, Safed, Smyrna, Salonika, Tunis, Monastir, Libya Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
In which country does Kimhi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 673 people named Kimhi in Israel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kimhi.
How common is the name Kimhi?
Mondonomo estimates about 670 people in Israel have Kimhi as their first surname, about 1 in 13 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Kimhi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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