Kyme
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/kim/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kyme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lincs, Yorks, and Lancs;. locative name from North or South Kyme (Lincs).
- JMJamaica≈1 in 484K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 615K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 663K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 484K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, 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)Main GB Location (1881): Lincs, Yorks, and Lancs;. locative name from North or South Kyme (Lincs).
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kyme 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 615K | — | Kyme | 61 |
| US United States | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | listed | Kyme | 96 |
| AU Australia | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 663K | 1 | Kyme | 46 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Kyme | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Kyme | 20 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Kyme | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 856K | — | Kyme | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)- Philip Kymeb. 1250first Lord Kyme
- William Kymeb. 1283second Lord Kyme, born 1293
- John Kymeb. 1401English politician, born 1469
- John Kymeb. 1401English politician, born 1491
- John Kymeb. 1519English politician, born 1519
- Bill Kymeb. 1891AUAustralian rules footballer (1891–1975)
- Brian Kymeb. 1935AUAustralian Anglican bishop
- Eddie Kymeb. 1940GBbadminton player
- Nick Kymeb. 1977GBUK editor and author (1977-)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Kyme mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lincs, Yorks, and Lancs;. locative name from North or South Kyme (Lincs). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Kyme?
- A machine transcription gives /kim/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kyme have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 people named Kyme in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kyme.
- How common is the name Kyme?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people in the United Kingdom have Kyme as their first surname, about 1 in 615 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kymeThe 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, “Kyme”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.