Kazys
given name · Lithuanian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kazys is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and English, written in the Latin script.
- LTLithuania1 in 105◐
- ISIceland1 in 175K
- SESweden1 in 1M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈26K ●
- Sources
- 50 ●
- 1 in 105 ◐
across 5 countries
685 records
Official registry-verified
Lithuania
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #35 | 25,891△ | 282 rec. | 1 in 105 | 26K | Kazys | 50 |
| US United States | — | 401 | 341 rec. | — | — | Kazys | 49 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 33 | 20 rec. | — | — | Kazys | 12 |
| RU Russia | — | 14 | 10 rec. | — | — | Kazys | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | 14 | 12 rec. | — | — | Kazys | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 10 | 8 rec. | — | 68 | Kazys | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 4 | 0 rec. | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | Kazys | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | 1 | 0 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | — | — | — | 27 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 1 | — | 1 |
Roughly 26K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 105). 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●
- Lithuanian79K99%
- English4661%
- Norwegian Bokmål681%
- Spanish491%
- Finnish421%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lithuanian | 79,063 | 99% |
| English | 466 | 1% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 68 | 1% |
| Spanish | 49 | 1% |
| Finnish | 42 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Kazys Griniusb. 1866LTThird President of Lithuania from 7 June 1926 until 17 December 1926 (1866-1950)
- Bronius Kazys Balutisb. 1880LTLithuanian diplomat (1880–1967)
- Kazys Giedrysb. 1891LTLithuanian politician (1891-1926)
- Kazys Binkisb. 1893LTLithuanian poet, journalist, playwright (1893-1942)
- Kazimieras Bizauskasb. 1893LTnot in their usual nameLithuanian politician (1893-1941)
- Kazys Škirpab. 1895LTLithuanian army officer and diplomat (1895-1979)
- Kazys Bradūnasb. 1917LTLithuanian writer (1917–2009)
- Kazys Petkevičiusb. 1926RULithuanian basketball player (1926–2008)
- Kazys Starkevičiusb. 1956LTLithuanian jurist and politician
- Kazys Maksvytisb. 1977LTLithuanian basketball coach
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — top-50 given names | — | 26K | #13 |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai | — | 26K | #13 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 68 | #9,989 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 27 | #17,313 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #37,159 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #35,875 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #20,922 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 4 | #20,758 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | #11,550 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2013 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 1944 | 1 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 15 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kazys?
- We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Kazys (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kazys have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 26 thousand people bear Kazys in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kazys.
- Where is Kazys most common?
- Kazys is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 105 people carrying it.
- How common is Kazys compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Kazys is the 35th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
- Is Kazys a male or female name?
- Kazys 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, “Kazys” — the 35th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.