Kiat
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kiat is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. It appears chiefly in Malay and English, written in the Latin script.
- MYMalaysia1 in 5.3K◐
- SGSingapore1 in 7K
- IDIndonesia1 in 148K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈12 ●
- Sources
- 89 ●
- 1 in 1.4M ◐
across 1 country
16K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #382 | 12,374 | 12K rec. | — | — | Kiat | 75 |
| SG Singapore | #375 | 1,531 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Kiat | 89 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 614 | 756 rec. | — | listed | Kiat | 57 |
| US United States | — | 442 | 537 rec. | — | — | Kiat | 65 |
| VN Vietnam | — | 322 | 3 rec. | — | — | Kiat | 9 |
| PH Philippines | — | 97 | 142 rec. | — | — | Kiat | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 61 | 60 rec. | — | — | Kiat | 19 |
| CN China | — | 25 | 7 rec. | — | — | Kiat | 12 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | 13 | 11 rec. | — | — | Kiat | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 12 | 11 rec. | 1 in 1.4M | 16 | — | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | 9 | 9 rec. | — | — | Kiat | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 8 | 7 rec. | — | — | Kiat | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay13K47%
- English7.7K27%
- English (Singapore)1.6K6%
- Indonesian1.3K5%
- Thai8633%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 13,181 | 47% |
| English | 7,656 | 27% |
| English (Singapore) | 1,597 | 6% |
| Indonesian | 1,342 | 5% |
| Thai | 863 | 3% |
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●
Kiat is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, careless
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Ji Benb. 150not in their usual nameHan dynasty imperial physician (died 218)
- Ji Hongchangb. 1895CNnot in their usual nameChinese general (1895-1934)
- Ji Xingwenb. 1908TWnot in their usual namegeneral in the Republic of China Army (b. 1908, d. 1958)
- Ji Bingxuanb. 1951CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
- Ji Linb. 1962CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician (b. 1962)
- Ji Xinpengb. 1977CNnot in their usual nameChinese badminton player
- Tang Qib. 1985CNnot in their usual namenovelist (*1985)
- Ji Zheb. 1986CNnot in their usual nameChinese basketball player (1986-2019)
- Ji Xiangb. 1990CNnot in their usual namefootballer
- Ji Xunot in their usual nameChinese chancellor
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 16 | #54,255 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 12 | #15,999 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #20,787 |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| RW Rwanda | MasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kiat?
- We estimate roughly 12 people bear Kiat (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Kiat have the most bearers?
- Kiat is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled kiat.
- How common is Kiat compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Kiat is the 382nd most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Kiat a male or female name?
- Kiat 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.
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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, “Kiat” — the 382nd most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.