Kismet
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kismet is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 41K
- ATAustria≈1 in 154K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kismet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Kismet | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 659K | — | Kismet | 11 |
| US United States | 308 | 1 in 1.1M | 273 | Kismet | 123 |
| DE Germany | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 418K | — | Kismet | 31 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 875K | — | Kismet | 8 |
| AL Albania | 75 | 1 in 41K | 75 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Kismet | 10 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Kismet | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 465K | 7 | — | 1 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Kismet 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 English, fate, destiny
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Serbo-Croatian, »dobra sreća, udes, sudbina«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 273 | #28,942 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 75 | #3,375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 35 | #28,942 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1955 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1956 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 8 | — |
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
- What does the name Kismet mean, and where does it come from?
- Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kismet a male or female name?
- Kismet is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kismet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Kismet in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kismet.
- Where is Kismet most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kismet is densest in Albania — about 1 in 41 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kismet?
- In the United States, the national register counted 308 people named Kismet in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kismetThe 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, “Kismet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.