Kekki
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kekki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kekki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably from Swedish käck (“lively, brave”).
- FIFinland1 in 2K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 222K
- UYUruguay1 in 136Kas Checchi
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kekki 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
2,720 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Probably from Swedish käck (“lively, brave”).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kekki 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 2,720 | 1 in 2K | 2.7K | Kekki | 1 |
| US United States | 251as Checchi | 1 in 1.3M | 265 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 205as Checchi | 1 in 222K | 205 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 139as Checchi | 1 in 1.5M | 139 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 46 | 1 in 222K | 46 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 25as Checchi | 1 in 136K | 25 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 14as Checchi | 1 in 837K | 14 | — | — |
2,720 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Matti Kekkib. 1868FIFinnish politician (1868-1933)
- Essi Kekkib. 1923FIFinnish high and long jumper
- Pertti Kekkib. 1940FIFinnish physician
- Jorma Kekkib. 1963FIFinnish poet and chess player
- Kaj Kekkib. 1963FIFinnish handball player and coach
- Lasse Kekkib. 1964FIFinnish literary scholar and professor
- Petri Kekkib. 1966FIFinnish chess player
- Marjatta Kekkib. 1966FIFinnish sculptor (born 1966)
- Maiju Kekkib. 1981FIFinnish basketball player
- Ossi Kekkib. 1993FIFinnish long-distance runner and middle-distance runner
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.7K | #735 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 46 | #13,538 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Kekki mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably from Swedish käck (“lively, brave”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Kekki?
- A machine transcription gives /kekki/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- In which country does Kekki have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Kekki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kekki.
- Where is Kekki most common?
- Kekki is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kekki?
- In Finland, the national register counted 2,720 people named Kekki, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kekki?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kekkiThe 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, “Kekki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.