Käe
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Käe is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: haie, enclos ; quai. Käe is also written เก in Thai, 케이 in Korean (Hangul) and ጋዬ in Ethiopic.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 7M
- HUHungary1 in 638as Gréta
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 Käe 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)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 437 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
22,240 named Greta, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Käe in other scripts: Latin, Thai, Korean (Hangul) and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kaye in US United States, PH Philippines, AU Australia and 1 more, Gaye in SE Sweden, NO Norway and Kia in FI Finland.
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)haie, enclos ; quai
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Käe 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 | #666 | 22,240as Greta | 1 in 15K | 34K | Kaye | 437 |
| HU Hungary | — | 15,308as Gréta | 1 in 638 | 15K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 11,798as Greta | 1 in 865 | 12K | Gaye | 20 |
| PH Philippines | #508 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Kaye | 131 |
| AU Australia | #353 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 72 | Kaye | 169 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,672as Kia | 1 in 3.3K | 4.4K | Kia | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,597as Greta | 1 in 3.4K | 5.2K | Gaye | 16 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Kaye | 34 |
| AL Albania | — | 980as Greta | 1 in 3.1K | 980 | — | — |
22,240 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling greta. 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 2010; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 Käe mean, and where does it come from?
- haie, enclos ; quai Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- Is Käe a male or female name?
- Käe 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 named Käe?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Greta, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Hungary, Sweden, Philippines and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Käe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,240 people named Greta in 2020, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Käe compared with other names?
- In the United States, Käe is the 666th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Käe?
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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%C3%A4eThe 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, “Käe” — ranked 974th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.