Qaïs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Qaïs is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the 18th most common given name. Recorded meaning: measure, measurement, firm, example.
- OMOman≈1 in 1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 1.3Kfew records
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.8Kfew records
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Qais in US United States, JO Jordan, OM Oman and 5 more.
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)measure, measurement, firm, example
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Nordic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Qaïs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #236 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 1 | Qais | 30 |
| JO Jordan | #468 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Qais | 76 |
| OM Oman | #18 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Qais | 63 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 50K | listed | Qais | 36 |
| YE Yemen | #932 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Qais | 22 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Qais | 59 |
| US United States | — | 625 | 1 in 532K | 624 | Qais | 131 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Qais | 37 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Qaïs mean, and where does it come from?
- measure, measurement, firm, example Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 2 other sources.
- Is Qaïs a male or female name?
- Qaïs 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 Qaïs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Qaïs in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled qais.
- How common is the name Qaïs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 625 people named Qaïs in 2020, about 1 in 532 thousand residents.
- How common is Qaïs compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Qaïs is the 236th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Qaïs?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/qa%C3%AFsThe 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, “Qaïs” — the 236th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.