Keat

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Keat is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. It appears chiefly in English and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from OE; first attested Richard Kete 1166.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia1 in 7.1K◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 115K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈7 ●

across 1 country

Sources
125 ●

18K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.5M ◐

Netherlands

Meaning & origin●

from OE; first attested Richard Kete 1166

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Keat is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia#5489,17011K rec.——Keat67
US United States—1,7243.8K rec.—316Keat125
AU Australia—1,0081.3K rec.—1Keat58
SG Singapore—401534 rec.——Keat52
GB United Kingdom—148550 rec.——Keat55
IN India—7029 rec.—1Keat5
DE Germany—3954 rec.——Keat17
CA Canada—37114 rec.——Keat25
PH Philippines—3490 rec.——Keat12
NZ New Zealand—2652 rec.——Keat21
KH Cambodia—1541 rec.——Keat21
TR Türkiye—1112 rec.——Keat1

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English12K43%
  • Malay10K36%
  • Indonesian1.1K4%
  • English (Singapore)1K4%
  • Korean7063%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English11,94443%
Malay10,05536%
Indonesian1,1384%
English (Singapore)1,0254%
Korean7063%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Keat is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name1.2K records spelled Keat20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: English, Spanish, Korean

    Also written Kieth, Kit, Kiet, Kiệt, Kiť

  • Spanish given name718 records spelled Keat3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Singapore, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Këát

  • English given name455 records spelled Keat101 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Thailand, Netherlands

    Languages: English, Thai, German

    Also written Kian, เกียรติ, เคียน, Kiat, เกียรต

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Keat is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Misspelling of keet.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, different form of Kite.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In Finnish, nominative plural of kea

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

1960197019801990Preston Keat, b. 1966Rebekah Keat, b. 1978Dan Keat, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Keat
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020316#67,362
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000285#65,133
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010280#69,996
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198122—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199110—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—7#22,158
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20075#78,668
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19715—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19852—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19832—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19762—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19672—

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 45 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Keat?
We estimate roughly 7 people bear Keat (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Keat have the most bearers?
Keat is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled keat.
How common is Keat compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Keat is the 548th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
Is Keat a male or female name?
Keat is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Keat mean?
Recorded meaning: from OE; first attested Richard Kete 1166
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keat

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.

About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Keat” — the 548th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

See how Keat parses inside a full name →