Ке

given name · Cyrillic script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ке is a given name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • KZKazakhstan≈1 in 6.3M(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden1 in 104Kas Ke
  • USUnited States1 in 121Kas Ke

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 Ке itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,747 named Ke, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
43 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.3M (inferred from the name graph)

Kazakhstan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

КэCyrillic(measured from records)
QuahLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Кэ in KZ Kazakhstan.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ке 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.

Where Ке is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,747as Ke1 in 121K2.8K—7
ES Spain121as Ke1 in 413K290—1
SE Sweden98as Ke1 in 104K98—1
PL Poland42as Ke1 in 911K26——
BR Brazil38as Ke1 in 5.6M54——
DK Denmark31as Ke1 in 189K16——
KZ Kazakhstan≈3 est.≈1 in 6.3M3Кэ6
GY Guyana2as Ke1 in 375K2——

2,747 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ке is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Uzbek given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Кё

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Кё

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kye

  • a separate name19 spellings in the group

    Also written Kê, Ќё, Ke, Kế, Kệ

2 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ке 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 xal, ornamented, neat, decorated

    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(measured from records)

14001600180020002200Cao Ke, b. 1521Ma Ke, b. 1971Mo Ke, b. 1982Xie Ke, b. 2000Ren Ke, b. 2003
  • Cao Keb. 1521not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 204273
  • Ma Keb. 1971CNnot in their usual nameChinese fashion designer (born 1971)
  • Mo Keb. 1982CNnot in their usual nameChinese basketball player (born 1982)
  • Xie Keb. 2000CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
  • Ren Keb. 2003CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player
  • Gao Kenot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 230335
  • Wang Kenot in their usual namepolitician
  • Yuan Kenot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 251252
  • Chao Kenot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 315263
  • Li Kenot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 310583

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(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ке under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ке a male or female name?
Ке is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Ке have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Ke, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Ке?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,747 people named Ke in 2020, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.

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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, “Ке”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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