Kế
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kế is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Chinese surname, from 柯 (kē). More at Ke.
- 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)
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)
Chinese surname, from 柯 (kē). More at Ke.
Sources 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kế 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ji Changb. 1428not in their usual namepolitician
- Ji Lib. 1431not in their usual namepolitician
- Ji Chengb. 1582CNnot in their usual nameChinese garden designer; Ming dynasty person CBDB = 72617
- Ji Liuqib. 1622not in their usual nameChinese historian
- Ji Zhiwenb. 1901not in their usual nameChinese Christian evangelical leader (1901-1985)
- Ji Rongsenb. 1907not in their usual nameChinese paleontologist
- Ji Chunhuab. 1961CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor (1961–2018)
- Ji Chengb. 1987CNnot in their usual nameChinese cyclist
- Ji Jiabangnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 332404
- Ji Shangxiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 306047
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)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kế mean, and where does it come from?
- Chinese surname, from 柯 (kē). More at Ke. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Kế have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Kế in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kế.
- How common is the name Kế?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,747 people named Kế in 2020, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.
- How common is Kế compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Kế is the 790th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%E1%BA%BFThe 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, “Kế” — the 790th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.