Kongsi
loc · Latin script
Meaning: trade union; joint venture
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kongsi is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 161Kas กงซุย(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kongsi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
≈430 named กงซุย, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as กงซุย
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled กงซุย in TH Thailand and Kongsui in US United States.
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)
trade union; joint venture
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kongsi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 161K | #92 | กงซุย | 43 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Kongsui | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
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.
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)
Kongsi 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.
In English, A benevolent organization of popular origin found among overseas Chinese communities for individuals with the same surname.
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kongsi mean, and where does it come from?
- trade union; joint venture Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kongsi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 429 people named กงซุย in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kongsi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 430 people in Thailand have กงซุย as their first surname, about 1 in 161 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Kongsi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kongsiThe 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, “Kongsi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.