Kete
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kete is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Turkish, recorded as gata.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 104K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 12K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 216K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kete 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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
1,706 named Keta
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Keta in IN India, ZA South Africa, NG Nigeria and 1 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)
A traditional Maori woven basket.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Kete is read(measured from records)
Kete is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish56%
gata
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Düğün armağanı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English19%
A traditional Maori woven basket.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kete in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kete 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 | — | 1,706as Keta | 1 in 777K | 1.7K | Keta | 25 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Kete | 19 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 216K | — | Keta | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 877K | — | Keta | 15 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 179 | 1 in 12K | 179 | — | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 27as Keta | 1 in 378K | 27 | — | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 334K | — | Kete | 10 |
| RW Rwanda | #836 | — | — | — | Keta | 1 |
1,706 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Kete is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, [with full e] 1, a kind of reed with thorns, growing near rivers, that may also furnish walking-sticks; cf, demmere. — 2- a Hide or pi2JC made of it, played before kings and accompanied by other instruments (e.g. odurugya), drums and bells
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Akan, ketekete [with fulle] a. dado, bright, -ly; in full lustre; owia afi kkk., gsram apae kk.; awia ket?, in or at broad daylight, broad noon, — k(»tein\ south; cf. kesem\ Scr
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In kr, s. or dinid kete, early in the morning, about the time when the cock crows for the first time
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
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)
- Emma Keteb. 1987NZNew Zealand association football player
- Primož KeteSIresearcher
- Vesna Dežman KeteSIresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 179 | #2,450 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #108,440 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #101,667 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Kete come from?
- A traditional Maori woven basket. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Kete mean?
- In Turkish, gata
- In which country does Kete have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Keta, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kete most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kete is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kete?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 179 people named Kete, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Kete compared with other names?
- In Rwanda, Kete is the 836th most common surname of 2,846 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keteThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kete” — the 836th most common surname in Rwanda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.