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Keith
Pronounced /kiːθ/
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1968 · #1285
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:336 in 2024 (#757)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No girls were recorded as Keith in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1968 with 74 babies, ranked #1285.
- It first shows up in the records in 1900.
- 2,216 girls have been named Keith since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Keith per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 121 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 181 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 621 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 796 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 448 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 44 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
As a Scottish surname, from the placename in Moray, Scotland, from Scottish Gaelic Cèith, meaning "wood" or "from the battleground," which is probably borrowed from Pictish *ᚉᚓᚈ (cēt) meaning "wood", or a forest, from Proto-Brythonic *koɨd. As a German surname, from Middle High German kit (“sprout, offspring”); compare Middle High German kint.
- (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- (very rare) A female given name from surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /kiːθ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Keith, CC BY-SA 4.0.