Kettil
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Kettil är ett nordiskt namn, ursprungligen ett binamn
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ketil/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kettil is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Sweden.
- SESweden
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kettil är ett nordiskt namn, ursprungligen ett binamn. Det innehåller ett ord motsvarande fornvästnordiskt ketill ’kittel’, som personnamn snarast i betydelsen ’offerkittel; hjälm’. Kettil har senare utvecklats till → Kjell. I Norge var varianten Kjetil populär under årtiondena runt 1960. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 8 juni.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Kettil is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Swedish: from the Old Norse name Ketill , a short form of various compound names containing the second element ketill sacrificial cauldron, for example Thorketill (see TORKEL ) and Arnketill . Variant: Kjell. Cognates: Norwegian: Kjetil. Danish: Kjeld, Keld .
as a word
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)
- Kettil Karlssonb. 1433SERegent of Sweden
- Kettil Bruunb. 1924FIFinnish sociologist
- Kettilcatholic bishop
- KettilEst 1230 -
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 108 | #8,138 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 45 | #6,464 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #7,843 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 40 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 40 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 39 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 39 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 39 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 39 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 39 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 39 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 38 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 are other forms of the name Kettil?
- In the etymology graph, Kjell, Kjetil and Kjeld are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kettil?
- A machine transcription gives /ketil/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Kettil a male or female name?
- Kettil is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Kettil mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kettil är ett nordiskt namn, ursprungligen ett binamn.
- In which country does Kettil have the most bearers?
- Kettil is most frequently recorded in Sweden.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kettilThe 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, “Kettil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.