Keats

surname · Latin script

Meaning: patronymic from Keat, a variant of Kite

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

/kits/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Keats is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • CACanada
  • AUAustralia
  • GBUnited Kingdom

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

patronymic from Keat, a variant of Kite.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Keats, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

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Where in the world(measured from records)

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Keats is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A surname transferred from the nickname or originating as a patronymic.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, son of Keat.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In English, John. English poet

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Croatian, engleski pjesnik, jedan od najvećih engleskih romantičara; odlikuje se iznimnom senzualnošću, maštovitošću i mističnošću

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

175018001850190019502000John Keats, b. 1795George Keats, b. 1797Duke Keats, b. 1895Horace Stanley Keats, b. 1895Viola Keats, b. 1911Ed Keats, b. 1915Steven Keats, b. 1945Jonathon Keats, b. 1971Caitlin Keats, b. 1972Abigail Keats, b. 1986

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Keats,
InformalHi Keats,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Keats
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020692#35,096
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010689#33,196
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000634#33,876
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12#109,635
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4#61,036
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—4#66,954
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#343,851
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Keats mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from Keat, a variant of Kite. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Keats?
A machine transcription gives /kits/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Keats have the most bearers?
Keats is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Keats”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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