Given name & surname
Ke
Ke is a surname from Chinese, ultimately from Mandarin. It is used in English and Breton.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ke comes from Chinese, and ultimately from Mandarin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ke through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 25
- 25 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,747 as a first name in 2020; 2,763 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ke’s family of names
In Burmese usage, Ke is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ကေ. In Burmese usage, Ke is a transliteration of ကေ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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