Kẻ
given name · Latin script
Meaning: individual, person, man; specifically, put before a verb/adjective to mean a specific type of people
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kẻ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 104K
- USUnited States1 in 121K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kế in VN Vietnam.
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)
individual, person, man; specifically, put before a verb/adjective to mean a specific type of people
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kẻ 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.
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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kẻ mean, and where does it come from?
- individual, person, man; specifically, put before a verb/adjective to mean a specific type of people Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kẻ a male or female name?
- Kẻ 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 Kẻ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Kẻ in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kế.
- How common is the name Kẻ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,747 people named Kẻ in 2020, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.
- How common is Kẻ compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Kẻ is the 790th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kẻ?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%E1%BA%BBThe 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, “Kẻ” — the 790th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.