Keevé

surname · Latin script

Keevé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: perhaps a variant of Cave . Compare Keeves .

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 154K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 683K

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.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈370 people, est.

Sources
129 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 154K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Keeve in US United States, DE Germany, ZA South Africa and 3 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)

perhaps a variant of Cave . Compare Keeves .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Keevé 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.

Where Keevé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈370 est.≈1 in 154K—Keeve14
US United States1341 in 2.5M183Keeve129
DE Germany≈120 est.≈1 in 683K—Keeve43
PH Philippines≈22 est.≈1 in 4.9M—Keeve7
GB United Kingdom≈21 est.≈1 in 3.2M—Keeve6
AU Australia≈13 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Keeve26
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4—1

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Keevé is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United States

    Also written Keeve

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Keevé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Keevé mean, and where does it come from?
perhaps a variant of Cave . Compare Keeves . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Keevé have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 367 people named Keevé in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keeve.
How common is the name Keevé?
In the United States, the national register counted 134 people named Keevé in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.

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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, “Keevé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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