Killé
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Killé is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As an English surname, variant of Kill. * Also as an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Kille, probably of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; compare the Old Norse name Kíli.
- USUnited States1 in 596K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 596K (inferred from the name graph)
558 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kille in US United States.
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)* As an English surname, variant of Kill. * Also as an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Kille, probably of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; compare the Old Norse name Kíli. * As a German surname, borrowed from German Kille, a variant of Kilian.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Killé is found
(measured from records)Killé 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 558 | 1 in 596K | 558 | Kille | 14 |
| IN India | 28 | 1 in 47M | 28 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 15 | 1 in 1.2M | 15 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 2 | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | — | 1 |
558 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Killé mean, and where does it come from?
- * As an English surname, variant of Kill. * Also as an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Kille, probably of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; compare the Old Norse name Kíli. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Is Killé a male or female name?
- Killé 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Killé?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 558 people named Killé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kille. After it come India, Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Killé most common?
- Killé is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 596 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Killé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 558 people named Killé in 2010, about 1 in 596 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kill%C3%A9The 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, “Killé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.