Kessy
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries
/ksi/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Kessy is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- MQMartinique≈1 in 81K
- FRFrance≈1 in 97K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guadeloupe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kessy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kessy | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 1,019 | 1 in 208K | 1K | Kessy | 63 |
| FR France | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 3K | — | 1 |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 5 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Kessy | 10 |
| BE Belgium | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 202K | 5 | — | 1 |
| MQ Martinique | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 5 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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)- Kessy Abarenkovb. 1980EEEstonian mycologist (born 1980)
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kessy?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ksi/; in Swahili /kessj/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Kessy a male or female name?
- Kessy is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Kessy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Kessy in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kessy.
- How common is the name Kessy?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,019 people named Kessy in 2022, about 1 in 208 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kessy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kessyThe 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, “Kessy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.