Ķee
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ķee is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; IoM. from Mac Aodha, Mac Aoidh, see McKee .
- USUnited States1 in 37K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 63K
- NONorway1 in 210K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ķee 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
9,049 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kee in US United States and Care in KR South Korea.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; IoM. from Mac Aodha, Mac Aoidh, see McKee .
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ķee 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 | — | 9,049 | 1 in 37K | 9.2K | Kee | 130 |
| AR Argentina | — | 406as Care | 1 in 112K | 406 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 274 | 1 in 63K | 322 | — | 2 |
| IN India | — | 53 | 1 in 25M | 53 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 38as Care | 1 in 1.3M | 38 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 26 | 1 in 210K | 26 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
| KR South Korea | #431 | — | — | — | Care | 100 |
9,049 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Ķee mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Glasgow; IoM. from Mac Aodha, Mac Aoidh, see McKee . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Is Ķee a male or female name?
- Ķee 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.
- In which country does Ķee have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.0 thousand people named Ķee, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kee.
- Where is Ķee most common?
- Ķee is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ķee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,049 people named Ķee in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Ķee compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Ķee is the 431st most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%B7eeThe 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, “Ķee” — the 431st most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.