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Keith
Pronounced /kiːθ/
Rank in 2024
#757
Born in 2024
336
Peak year
1957 · #36
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 336 boys were named Keith, about 1 in every 5,105.
- It peaked in 1957 with 12,437 babies, ranked #36.
- It first shows up in the records in 1888.
- 437,592 boys 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.
- 0.7Greatest1901–27
- 1.4Silent1928–45
- 4.4Boomers1946–64
- 5.0Gen X1965–80
- 2.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.7Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 12,142 babies, 0.73 per 1,000. Silent: 28,120 babies, 1.36 per 1,000. Boomers: 165,292 babies, 4.40 per 1,000. Gen X: 135,180 babies, 4.97 per 1,000. Millennials: 69,682 babies, 2.29 per 1,000. Gen Z: 20,495 babies, 0.65 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 6,567 babies, 0.30 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.