Kha
loc · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kha is a name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hán-Việt: kha, có thể/đáng; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Định Viễn quận vương.
- INIndia1 in 44K◐
- ISIceland1 in 70K
- FIFinland1 in 293K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈993 ●
- Sources
- 77 ●
- 1 in 70K ◐
across 7 countries
147K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ķhã in MA Morocco.
Meaning & origin●
Hán-Việt: kha, có thể/đáng; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Định Viễn quận vương.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 14 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 112,006 | 146K rec. | — | 315 | Kha | 60 |
| US United States | 950 | 744 rec. | 1 in 350K | 1.6K | — | 77 |
| PK Pakistan | 154 | 204 rec. | — | — | Kha | 33 |
| FI Finland | 19 | — | 1 in 293K | 65 | — | — |
| MA Morocco | 14 | 72 rec. | — | — | Ķhã | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 9 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 66 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 6 | — | 1 in 978K | 8 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 5 | — | 1 in 70K | 5 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | — | 1 in 13M | 8 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 1 | — | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 2 rec. | — | 56 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 5 rec. | — | 44 | — | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic628K76%
- Hindi112K14%
- Urdu1541%
- Vietnamese481%
- Thai141%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 628,455 | 76% |
| Hindi | 112,005 | 14% |
| Urdu | 154 | 1% |
| Vietnamese | 48 | 1% |
| Thai | 14 | 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●
Kha is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In sit-pro, to go, come
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Khasi.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, The name of the Cyrillic script letter Х / х.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-phu, to draw (water)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2014 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 14 years between 1982–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kwa Geok Choob. 1920SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean lawyer (1920-2010)
- Ko Chun-hsiungb. 1945TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor
- Ke Linglingb. 1951CNnot in their usual namefirst wife of Xi Jinping (1979-1982)
- Blackie Kob. 1953TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor and film director (1953-2003)
- Ko Wen-jeb. 1959TWnot in their usual namephysician and former Mayor of Taipei
- Lawrence Kob. 1977TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor, singer
- Giddens Kob. 1978TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese writer and director
- Kevin Kob. 1983TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese film director (1983-)
- Alice Keb. 1985TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress
- Ko Chen-tungb. 1991TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor 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 33 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,257 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #22,999 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 950 | #10,160 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 376 | #10,160 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 315 | #12,918 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 213 | #2,197 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 116 | #4,790 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 66 | #25,691 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 65 | #6,689 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 64 | #7,211 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #11,225 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 62 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kha?
- We estimate roughly 993 people bear Kha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kha have the most bearers?
- Kha is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled kha.
- What does the name Kha mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hán-Việt: kha, có thể/đáng; thuộc bài đặt tên cho Định Viễn quận vương.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kha”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.