Kyaw

given name · Burmese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kyaw is a given name, most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Burmese and Thai, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Possibly imitative.

rarermore common
  • MMMyanmar (Burma)1 in 7◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 3.6K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 4.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.5K ●

across 7 countries

#593 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
172 ●

40K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 80K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

KyawLatin · Burmese●4.4M records
ควาThai · Thai●124 records

Locally spelled Yaw in GH Ghana and Yoa in LA Laos.

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●

Possibly imitative.

Sources 1

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Kyaw is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MM Myanmar (Burma)#14,360,92210K rec.—3.3MKyaw126
MY Malaysia#28715,2683.2K rec.——Kyaw34
TH Thailand—7,7732.7K rec.—#68,165Kyaw97
US United States—4,15413K rec.1 in 80K4.2KKyaw172
SG Singapore#2102,9624.5K rec.——Kyaw66
AU Australia—1,0742K rec.—3Kyaw76
ID Indonesia—7371.3K rec.——Kyaw20
GB United Kingdom—715785 rec.—3Kyaw58
VN Vietnam—53714 rec.—listedKyaw16
GH Ghana#42529290 rec.—96KYaw21
BD Bangladesh—215311 rec.——Kyaw20
IN India—198286 rec.—7Kyaw16

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Burmese4.4M99%
  • Thai7.6K1%
  • English5.3K1%
  • Malay1.9K1%
  • Indonesian1.8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Burmese4,379,46299%
Thai7,6291%
English5,3021%
Malay1,9491%
Indonesian1,7941%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Kyaw is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name629 records spelled Kyaw2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Singapore, Malaysia

    Also written Kyạw

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name314 records spelled Kyaw6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Kýãw

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

010203020102015202029 · 2019

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Kyaw in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2006–2020
Yearrecords
200612
200717
200822
200923
201023
201126
201226
201326
201425
201525
201627
201727
201827
201929
202029

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 15 years between 2006–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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 25 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Kyaw
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MM Myanmar (Burma)This page features the most common names in Myanmar, published on WorldNames.20233.3M#1
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202K#7,595
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.6K#17,238
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010858#27,950
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000194#88,825
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—115#16,468
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—113#4,853
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—104#14,819
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—70#9,741
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—35#17,316
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—31#18,321
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202029—

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 · 54 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kyaw?
We estimate roughly 4.5 thousand people bear Kyaw (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Kyaw have the most bearers?
Kyaw is most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is most often spelled kyaw.
How common is Kyaw compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Kyaw is the most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.
Is Kyaw a male or female name?
Kyaw 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.
What does the name Kyaw mean?
Recorded meaning: Possibly imitative.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Kyaw” — the most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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