Kestutis
given name · Lithuanian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kestutis is a given name, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Lithuanian and English, written in the Latin script.
- LTLithuania1 in 107◐
- NONorway1 in 17K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 186K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈26K ●
- Sources
- 124 ●
- 1 in 107 ◐
across 9 countries
5.3K records
Official registry-verified
Lithuania
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #77 | 25,415△ | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 107 | 25K | Kestutis | 117 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,114 | 706 rec. | — | — | Kestutis | 61 |
| FI Finland | — | 466 | 1 rec. | — | 228 | Kestutis | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 319△ | 97 rec. | 1 in 17K | 1.3K | Kestutis | 25 |
| US United States | — | 259 | 2K rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 259 | Kestutis | 124 |
| DE Germany | — | 176 | 145 rec. | — | — | Kestutis | 43 |
| SE Sweden | — | 115△ | 12 rec. | 1 in 89K | 115 | Kestutis | 15 |
| FR France | — | 79 | 65 rec. | — | — | Kestutis | 27 |
| DK Denmark | — | 74△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 79K | 74 | Kestutis | 17 |
| IE Ireland | — | 66 | 59 rec. | — | — | Kestutis | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 59 | 186 rec. | 1 in 848K | 59 | Kestutis | 22 |
| AU Australia | — | 55 | 40 rec. | — | 1 | Kestutis | 12 |
Roughly 25K people in Lithuania bear this name (about 1 in 107). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Lithuanian57K92%
- English1.5K2%
- Norwegian Bokmål1.3K2%
- Finnish4671%
- Spanish4301%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Lithuanian | 56,817 | 92% |
| English | 1,484 | 2% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 1,270 | 2% |
| Finnish | 467 | 1% |
| Spanish | 430 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kestutis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 6 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 8 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 11 |
| 1968 | 11 |
| 1969 | 8 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 12 |
| 1972 | 9 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 9 |
| 1976 | 10 |
| 1977 | 11 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 15 |
| 1981 | 13 |
| 1982 | 14 |
| 1983 | 17 |
| 1984 | 10 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1988 | 12 |
| 1989 | 12 |
| 1990 | 14 |
| 1991 | 4 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 4 |
| 1994 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 33 years between 1959–1994. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Kęstutis Bulotab. 1896LTLithuanian speed skater (1896-1941)
- Kęstutis Glaveckasb. 1949LTLithuanian politician (1949-2021)
- Kęstutis Šapkab. 1949LTLithuanian high jumper
- Kęstutis Kuzmickasb. 1959LTLithuanian psychotherapist and politician
- Kęstutis Daukšysb. 1960LTLithuanian politician
- Kęstutis Kriščiūnasb. 1969LTLithuanian politician
- Kęstutis Kemzūrab. 1970LTLithuanian basketball player (born 1970)
- Kęstutis Kėvalasb. 1972LTRoman Catholic archbishop
- Kęstutis Navickasb. 1984LTLithuanian badminton player
- Kęstutis Ivaškevičiusb. 1985LTLithuanian footballer
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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 · 206 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kestutis?
- We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Kestutis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kestutis have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 25 thousand people bear Kestutis in Lithuania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kestutis.
- Where is Kestutis most common?
- Kestutis is densest in Lithuania, where the national register counts about 1 in 107 people carrying it.
- How common is Kestutis compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Kestutis is the 77th most common given name of 5,871 given names recorded there.
- Is Kestutis a male or female name?
- Kestutis 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kestutisThe 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
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, “Kestutis” — the 77th most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.