Kyaw
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kyaw is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country, where it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: Possibly imitative.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 109(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 3.3K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 8.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kyaw 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.
- Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 109 (inferred from the name graph)
≈520,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Possibly imitative.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kyaw 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #1 | ≈520,000 est. | ≈1 in 109 | 3.3M | Kyaw | 129 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kyaw | 23 |
| CN China | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Kyaw | 14 |
| US United States | — | 4,333as Khoa | 1 in 77K | 4.2K | Kyaw | 188 |
| MY Malaysia | #303 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Kyaw | 35 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | #68,165 | Kyaw | 100 |
| SG Singapore | #295 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Kyaw | 68 |
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: This page features the most common names in Myanmar, published on WorldNames.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kyaw Zaw Waib. 1945MMbadminton player
- Kyaw Kyawb. 1955MMbadminton player
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 25 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,238 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 858 | #27,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 194 | #88,825 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Kyaw mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly imitative. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Kyaw a male or female name?
- Kyaw is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kyaw have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 520 thousand people named Kyaw in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kyaw.
- How common is the name Kyaw?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,333 people named Khoa in 2020, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
- How common is Kyaw compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Kyaw is the most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kyaw?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kyawThe 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, “Kyaw” — the most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.