Koit
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Estonian: the twilight before rising of the sun, dawn (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
Koit is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Koit is also written ก่ออิฐ in Thai.
- FIFinland1 in 71K(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 860Kfew recordsas ก่ออิฐ
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Koit itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
≈83 named ก่ออิฐ, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Koit in other scripts: Thai and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled ก่ออิฐ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)the twilight before rising of the sun, dawn
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Koit is read
(measured from records)Koit is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Estonian56%
the twilight before rising of the sun, dawn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Koit in English.
- Finnish11%
nominative plural of koi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Koit is found
(measured from records)Koit 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 860K | register #45,621 | ก่ออิฐ | 20 |
| FI Finland | 79 | 1 in 71K | 118 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | — | 7 | — | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | 502 | — | 3 |
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.
Registers cited: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); the ee-stat-nimed register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)Koit 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 mrw, touch lightly, pick; stick used to pick (fruit out of reach)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mrw, touch lightly, pick; stick used to pick
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In vo, coitus, copulation, copulating, mating
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tmb, octopus
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Koit Annamaab. 1912EEEstonian hammer thrower (1912-1970)
- Koit Pikarob. 1949EEEstonian politician (1949-2026)
- Koit Toomeb. 1979EEEstonian singer (born 1979)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Koit mean, and where does it come from?
- the twilight before rising of the sun, dawn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Koit a male or female name?
- Koit is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Estonia (Statistics Estonia) and Finland (DVV).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Koit?
- Mondonomo estimates about 83 people named ก่ออิฐ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Koit most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Koit is densest in Finland — about 1 in 71 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Koit?
- In Finland, the national register counted 79 people named Koit, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Koit?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koitThe 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, “Koit”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.