Kéel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kéel is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Belize it is the 50th most common surname. Recorded meaning: habitational name from Keele in Staffordshire, named from Old English cy ‘cows’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from East and West Keal in Lincolnshire, which are named from Old Norse kjqlr ‘ridge’.
- BZBelize≈1 in 7.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 9.6K
- GHGhana≈1 in 12Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 346 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
8,682 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Keel in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more.
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)- Keelein(measured from records)
- Old Englishcy(measured from records)
- Eastand(measured from records)
- Old Norsekjqlr(measured from records)
habitational name from Keele in Staffordshire, named from Old English cy ‘cows’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from East and West Keal in Lincolnshire, which are named from Old Norse kjqlr ‘ridge’.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where the surname Kéel is found
(measured from records)Kéel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8,682 | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Keel | 346 |
| GH Ghana | #961 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Keel | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Keel | 110 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Keel | 63 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 879 | 1 in 9.6K | 879 | Keel | 40 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Keel | 4 |
| BZ Belize | #50 | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Keel | 1 |
8,682 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kéel mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Keele in Staffordshire, named from Old English cy ‘cows’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from East and West Keal in Lincolnshire, which are named from Old Norse kjqlr ‘ridge’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Is Kéel a male or female name?
- Kéel is a female 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kéel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.7 thousand people named Kéel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keel. After it come Ghana, United Kingdom, Canada and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kéel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,682 people named Kéel in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Kéel compared with other names?
- In Belize, Kéel is the 50th most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A9elThe 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, “Kéel” — the 50th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.