Kings
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kings is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: From Middle English Kinges; reference to the contents of the book, a chronicle of the Kings of Israel.
- TNTunisia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled King'S in GB United Kingdom.
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(measured from records)
From Middle English Kinges; reference to the contents of the book, a chronicle of the Kings of Israel.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kings counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 434 | Kings | 173 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | King'S | 103 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Kings | 56 |
| TN Tunisia | — | — | Kings | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Kings | 53 |
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 2000. 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)
Kings is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, or chiefs are carried; for European travellers the hammock
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Latvian, Ķīniešu sitamais instruments, sastāv no 12 akmens platēm 2 rindās, kas abas ir veselu toņu gammas, viena pustoni augstāka par otru
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Karalis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Gundars Ķeniņš-Kingsb. 1926USAmerican economist (1926-2015)
- Neltje Doubleday Kingsb. 1934USAmerican artist and philanthropist (1934–2021)
- Jan Kingsb. 1945SESwedish actor
- Graham Kingsb. 1953GBMission Theologian in the Anglican Communion; Bishop of Sherborne; British Anglican bishop
- Rosa Körbergb. 1961SEnot in their usual nameSwedish female singer
- Kings Kangwab. 1999ZMZambian association football player
- StaySolidRockyb. 2001USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 434 | #46,240 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Kings mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English Kinges; reference to the contents of the book, a chronicle of the Kings of Israel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Kings have the most bearers?
- Kings is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled kings.
What do you want to know about Kings?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kingsThe 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, “Kings”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.