Kee

8,314 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kee in the 2020 census, making it the 4,140th most common in the country. That is about one person in 36,000.

By the numbers

People: 8,314
Rank: 4,140th
How common: 1 in 36,000
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Shortened from McKee, or borrowed from nan-hbl or nan-tws.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kee described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 50.1%
Black, not Hispanic 21.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 9.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 9.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%

Notable people called Kee

Tan Kah Kee (1874–1961)Chinese businessman
Piet Kee (1927–2018)Dutch organist and composer

People named Kee with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kee

Also a first name

Kee has been given to 1,416 American babies as a first name since 1910, peaking in 1924. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.