Qais
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Qais is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. In Oman it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: measure, measurement, example, exemplar.
- FRFrance1 in 510K◐
- USUnited States1 in 533K
- OMOman1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.1K ●
- Sources
- 111 ●
- 1 in 35K ◐
across 8 countries
11K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
measure, measurement, example, exemplar
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 1,035 | 626 rec. | — | — | Qais | 71 |
| JO Jordan | #616 | 906 | 854 rec. | — | — | Qais | 73 |
| OM Oman | #35 | 905 | 862 rec. | — | — | Qais | 59 |
| AF Afghanistan | #182 | 660 | 654 rec. | — | 1 | Qais | 21 |
| IN India | — | 641 | 368 rec. | — | 5 | Qais | 31 |
| SY Syria | — | 633 | 775 rec. | — | — | Qais | 16 |
| US United States | — | 624 | 2.8K rec. | 1 in 533K | 624 | Qais | 111 |
| DE Germany | — | 610 | 623 rec. | — | 1 | Qais | 63 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 609 | 188 rec. | — | listed | Qais | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 542 | 363 rec. | — | 3 | Qais | 48 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 532 | 539 rec. | — | — | Qais | 37 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 418 | 496 rec. | — | — | Qais | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic4.8K32%
- English2.2K14%
- Urdu1.4K9%
- French1K7%
- Pashto9546%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 4,798 | 32% |
| English | 2,168 | 14% |
| Urdu | 1,350 | 9% |
| French | 1,033 | 7% |
| Pashto | 954 | 6% |
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●
Qais is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, measure, measurement, firm, example
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
measuring; comparing;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
To compare,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In tay, boundary
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 14 |
| 2010 | 15 |
| 2011 | 16 |
| 2012 | 20 |
| 2013 | 24 |
| 2014 | 18 |
| 2015 | 22 |
| 2016 | 24 |
| 2017 | 19 |
| 2018 | 30 |
| 2019 | 28 |
| 2020 | 24 |
| 2021 | 26 |
| 2022 | 31 |
| 2023 | 30 |
| 2024 | 37 |
| 2025 | 43 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 25 years between 1999–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Qays Ibn al-Mulawwahb. 644SAnot in their usual nameArab poet and the character of the romantic fiction Layla and Majnun
- Qais Abd al-Karimb. 1944IQPalestinian politician
- Kais Saiedb. 1958TNnot in their usual nameTunisian politician, academic and jurist
- Qais Obeidb. 1973ILMilitary commander in Hezbollah (1973–)
- Qais Khazalib. 1974IQleader of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
- Kaies Ghodhbaneb. 1976TNnot in their usual nameTunisian association football player
- Kais Nashefb. 1978ILnot in their usual nameIsrael-Palestinian actor
- Kais Settib. 1985DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor
- Qays ibn Sa'dSAnot in their usual nameRashidun army leader and a companion of Muhammad
- al-Najashi al-Harithinot in their usual namearab poet
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 35 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 624 | #17,567 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 290 | #4,009 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 170 | #5,395 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 159 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 150 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 142 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 125 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 105 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 51 | #2,311 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 45 | #9,199 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 43 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 40 | #33,601 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 110 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Qais?
- We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Qais (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Qais have the most bearers?
- Qais is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled qais.
- How common is Qais compared with other names?
- In Oman, Qais is the 35th most common given name of 5,236 given names recorded there.
- Is Qais a male or female name?
- Qais 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 Qais mean?
- Recorded meaning: measure, measurement, example, exemplar
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Qais” — the 35th most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.