Kabyle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia, speaking the Kabyle language
Kabyle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.9Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈24 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia, speaking the Kabyle language.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kabyle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | Kabyle | 8 |
| US United States | — | — | Kabyle | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Kabyle | 1 |
| RO Romania | — | — | Kabyle | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kabyle is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, lang.. people. Algeria
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Portuguese, Kabyle (member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kabyle mean, and where does it come from?
- A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia, speaking the Kabyle language. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kabyle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 people named Kabyle in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kabyle.
- How common is the name Kabyle?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 people in Algeria have Kabyle as their first surname, about 1 in 1.9 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kabyleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Kabyle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.