Kawin
given name · Thai · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kawin is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 28th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Thai and English, written in the Latin script.
- GYGuyana1 in 973◐
- IEIreland1 in 1.3K
- AUAustralia1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈170K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 443 ●
- 1 in 973 ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
605K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gavin in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 20 more and กวิน in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 168,329 | 360K rec. | 1 in 2K | 168K | Gavin | 443 |
| GB United Kingdom | #280 | 114,930 | 74K rec. | — | 6 | Gavin | 258 |
| AU Australia | #264 | 79,309 | 62K rec. | — | 82 | Gavin | 244 |
| CA Canada | #535 | 19,524 | 11K rec. | — | 32 | Gavin | 165 |
| TH Thailand | — | 16,266 | 9.7K rec. | — | 1 | กวิน | 115 |
| ZA South Africa | #232 | 13,235 | 12K rec. | — | — | Gavin | 125 |
| IE Ireland | #165 | 7,454 | 3.8K rec. | — | 26 | Gavin | 127 |
| NZ New Zealand | #132 | 5,112 | 3.5K rec. | — | 10 | Gavin | 118 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,709 | 3K rec. | — | listed | Gavin | 103 |
| SG Singapore | #441 | 1,219 | 4.9K rec. | — | — | Gavin | 99 |
| GY Guyana | #28 | 771 | 1K rec. | 1 in 973 | 771 | Gavin | 6 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 625 | 573 rec. | — | — | Gavin | 71 |
Roughly 168K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Thai3.4K82%
- English3689%
- Finnish662%
- Hindi591%
- German271%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Thai | 3,429 | 82% |
| English | 368 | 9% |
| Finnish | 66 | 2% |
| Hindi | 59 | 1% |
| German | 27 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kawin is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sjm, to perform the wedding ceremony; to put on a wedding celebration
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In dbj, to marry (people), crossbreed (trees); said to be a loan
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Indonesian, in a state of marriage; married
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In msk, to hold a wedding ceremony
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In iba, to marry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, caver
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Karen Horneyb. 1885DEnot in their usual nameAmerican-German psychoanalyst
- Karen Blixenb. 1885DKnot in their usual nameDanish writer
- Karen Blackb. 1939USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter (1939-2013)
- Karen Uhlenbeckb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican mathematician (born 1942)
- Karen Carpenterb. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and drummer (1950–1983)
- Karen Allenb. 1951USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Karen Nybergb. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican astronaut
- Karen Davidb. 1979INnot in their usual nameCanadian actress, singer and songwriter
- Karen Gillanb. 1987GBnot in their usual nameScottish actress and filmmaker
- Lucy Haleb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer
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●
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #16,707 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #15,476 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #33,361 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 8 | #20,463 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #74,004 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #149 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2014 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2014 | 1 | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kawin?
- We estimate roughly 170 thousand people bear Kawin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kawin have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 168 thousand people bear Kawin in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gavin.
- Where is Kawin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kawin is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 973 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Kawin compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Kawin is the 28th most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.
- Is Kawin a male or female name?
- Kawin 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Kawin” — the 28th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.