Given name & surname · also Hokkien
Kee
Kee is a surname from Hokkien, ultimately from Teochew.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Kee comes from Hokkien, and ultimately from Teochew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1910. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kee through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,416
- 1,406 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 44 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 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 44 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,726 as a first name in 2020; 8,314 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.
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