Keke
given name · Latin script
Meaning: To laugh, especially in a cackling or staccato-like manner (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: Ministere de l'Interieur, 2025
/kəkə/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Keke is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- GAGabon≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 21K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 26Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Gabon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Keke
- Indonesian:/kəkə/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)To laugh, especially in a cackling or staccato-like manner.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Keke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 522K | 20 | Keke | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Keke | 21 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Keke | 35 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 909 | — | — |
| US United States | 681 | 1 in 488K | 608 | Keke | 195 |
| GA Gabon | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 2 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Keke | 4 |
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; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Keke is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In men, together ; used with reference to united effort. A mu hani ji wiimbu keke, 7., end
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In gil, a noise, crack, crackling noise, grating noise, rustling noise (of hard thing being rattled or dragged along); to make this noise
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In apb, to crunch coconuts, canarium nuts, etc., of pigs or _rete_ (a large rat: _Mus rex_)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Dutch, singular past subjunctive of kijken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pam, alternative spelling of kekami
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Keke Mortsonb. 1934CACanadian ice hockey player (1934-1995)
- Brooke Satchwellb. 1980AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actress
- Keke Toppb. 2004DEGerman footballer
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Keke mean, and where does it come from?
- To laugh, especially in a cackling or staccato-like manner. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Keke?
- In Indonesian /kəkə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Keke a male or female name?
- Keke is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Keke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Keke in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keke. After it come South Africa, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Keke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 681 people named Keke in 2020, about 1 in 488 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Keke?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kekeThe 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, “Keke” — ranked 78448th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.