Ketty

Name: Ketty: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Ketty is a given name, most frequently recorded in Peru. It appears chiefly in Spanish and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ketty är en engelsk smekform till → Katarina.

rarermore common

ECEcuador1 in 3.4K◐
PEPeru1 in 10K
COColombia1 in 21K

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

: ≈9.3K ●
: 2 ●
Sources: 130 ●
: 1 in 3.4K ◐

Spellings & scripts●

KettyLatin · Spanish●43K records

ΚαίτηGreek · Greek●81 records

Locally spelled Keti in GR Greece.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Ketty är en engelsk smekform till → Katarina. Namnet användes en del i Sverige under 1800-talet, särskilt i de västra delarna av landet.

Sources 1

Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Where in the world●

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

Where Ketty is recorded, by country
Country						Most common spelling	Sources
PE Peru	#964	22,132	18K rec.	—	—	Ketty	39
EC Ecuador	#901	4,983△	119 rec.	1 in 3.4K	5K	Ketty	28
VE Venezuela	—	3,018	1.5K rec.	—	709	Ketty	22
CO Colombia	—	2,922	979 rec.	—	4	Ketty	50
IT Italy	—	1,560	1.5K rec.	—	1	Ketty	38
DK Denmark	—	1,539	—	1 in 3.8K	1.5K	—	—
CL Chile	—	1,510	237 rec.	—	1	Ketty	33
US United States	—	1,186	2.6K rec.	1 in 280K	1.2K	Ketty	130
AR Argentina	—	1,064	875 rec.	—	12	Ketty	31
SE Sweden	—	585△	4 rec.	1 in 17K	585	—	2
BR Brazil	—	547	851 rec.	1 in 387K	547	Ketty	76
UY Uruguay	—	290	168 rec.	—	1	Ketty	11
GR Greece	—	244	225 rec.	—	3	Keti	21
AL Albania	—	186	—	1 in 17K	186	—	—
HR Croatia	—	182	—	1 in 23K	182	—	—
ZM Zambia	#841	142	5 rec.	—	1	Ketty	8
LA Laos	—	130	2 rec.	—	—	Ketty	3
KE Kenya	—	110	48 rec.	—	—	Ketty	8
ZA South Africa	—	88	109 rec.	—	—	Ketty	6
ES Spain	—	84	626 rec.	1 in 595K	84	Ketty	43
UG Uganda	#245	81	19 rec.	—	1	Ketty	13
CN China	—	81	13 rec.	—	—	Ketty	6
EG Egypt	—	58	34 rec.	—	—	Ketty	8
MY Malaysia	—	52	74 rec.	—	—	Ketty	7
TW Taiwan	—	42	13 rec.	—	—	Ketty	10
SI Slovenia	—	41△	3 rec.	1 in 51K	43	—	1
FR France	—	—	—	—	3.8K	—	—
IN India	—	—	21 rec.	—	1.7K	—	5
NO Norway	—	—	0 rec.	—	52	—	1
FI Finland	—	—	0 rec.	—	50	—	1
CZ Czechia	—	—	—	—	30	—	—
PL Poland	—	—	—	—	8	—	—
RE Réunion	—	—	—	—	5	—	—
MQ Martinique	—	—	—	—	5	—	—
GF French Guiana	—	—	—	—	5	—	—
GP Guadeloupe	—	—	—	—	5	—	—
MD Moldova	—	—	—	—	2	—	—
IS Iceland	—	—	—	—	1	—	—
EE Estonia	—	—	—	—	6	—	—
CR Costa Rica	—	—	—	—	20	—	—
FO Faroe Islands	—	—	—	—	7	—	—
DM Dominica	—	—	—	—	2	—	—
GD Grenada	—	—	—	—	2	—	—
AT Austria	—	—	—	—	2	—	—
KN St. Kitts & Nevis	—	—	—	—	1	—	—
GY Guyana	—	—	—	—	1	—	—
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines	—	—	—	—	1	—	—
HT Haiti	—	—	—	—	listed	—	—

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

Languages●

Spanish43K39%
French26K24%
English17K15%
Portuguese9.7K9%
Danish4.3K4%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
Spanish	42,569	39%
French	25,799	24%
English	16,677	15%
Portuguese	9,720	9%
Danish	4,348	4%

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◐

Ketty is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

French given name27K records spelled Ketty5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Italy, United States, Guadeloupe
Languages: French, Catalan
Also written Kétty, Këtty, Kęttÿ
English given name24K records spelled Ketty13 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Denmark, Italy
Languages: English, Danish, German
Also written Kétty, Kęttÿ, Kètty
Indonesian given name1.9K records spelled Ketty3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, United States, Malaysia
Languages: Indonesian, Malay
Also written Këtty
Czech given name343 records spelled Ketty4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Czechia, Italy, United States, Poland
Languages: Czech, Polish
Also written Kếttý

47 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●

Ketty is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

Saetta
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Danish, a female given name derived from Kitty, the English pet form of Katherine
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.

Over time●

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Ketty in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1909–2023
Year	records
1909	1
1919	1
1921	1
1922	1
1925	1
1926	1
1929	2
1930	1
1931	3
1932	1
1933	1
1934	5
1935	1
1936	4
1937	5
1938	3
1939	5
1940	7
1941	3
1942	7
1943	9
1944	15
1945	14
1946	9
1947	14
1948	13
1949	11
1950	20
1951	11
1952	16
1953	24
1954	27
1955	37
1956	38
1957	29
1958	35
1959	41
1960	47
1961	50
1962	66
1963	86
1964	67
1965	85
1966	89
1967	88
1968	115
1969	103
1970	107
1971	118
1972	117
1973	108
1974	149
1975	167
1976	158
1977	167
1978	169
1979	168
1980	168
1981	148
1982	166
1983	122
1984	150
1985	144
1986	137
1987	99
1988	88
1989	82
1990	90
1991	75
1992	93
1993	49
1994	99
1995	104
1996	50
1997	37
1998	36
1999	61
2000	35
2001	38
2002	34
2003	18
2004	25
2005	32
2006	23
2007	20
2008	15
2009	21
2010	13
2011	9
2012	9
2013	9
2014	4
2015	7
2016	3
2017	5
2018	4
2019	6
2020	2
2021	4
2022	5
2023	3

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 101 years between 1909–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppeb. 1868BEBelgian painter (1868-1939)
Ketty Guttmannb. 1883DEGerman politician and prostitute's rights activist (1883-1967)
Ketty Piersonb. 1896FRFrench actress (1896–1959)
Ketty Diridaouab. 1921GRGreek actress
Ketty Fuscob. 1926CHSwiss writer (1926-2021)
Ketty Albertinib. 1926FRFrench actress and journalist (1926–1986)
Ketty Lesterb. 1934USAmerican actress, recording artist
Ketty La Roccab. 1938ITItalian artist (1938–1976)
Kayra Özdemirb. 1988FRnot in their usual nameTurkish-French judoka (born 1988)
Namasendab. 1993SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and songwriter

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 58 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Ketty
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
EC Ecuador	INEC — civil registry names	2024	5K	#359
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)	2015	3.8K	#3,083
DK Denmark	Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)	—	1.5K	#297
US United States	Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex	2020	1.2K	#10,917
VE Venezuela	asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)	—	709	#2,061
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	585	#2,496
BR Brazil	IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)	2022	547	—
BR Brazil	IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)	—	546	#12,563
BR Brazil	Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)	—	503	#7,379
BR Brazil	IBGE — Nomes (census name API)	—	492	#14,475
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2020	302	—
ES Spain	INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)	—	84	#18,113
ES Spain	INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)	—	72	#9,149
NO Norway	SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)	—	52	#11,560
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	50	#8,154
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	50	#8,741
GP Guadeloupe	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe)	1968	50	#12
BR Brazil	IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)	2000	45	—
CZ Czechia	MVČR — living population register 2017	—	30	#2,620
CR Costa Rica	TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names	—	20	#5,803
CZ Czechia	KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)	—	15	#2,173
US United States	Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex	2020	12	#10,917
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)	—	8	#8,193
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)	2026	8	#8,194
FO Faroe Islands	Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024)	—	7	—
EE Estonia	Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)	—	6	#3,202
SI Slovenia	SURS — resident population given names	2025	5	#3,850
RE Réunion	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion)	2010	5	#303
MQ Martinique	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique)	2000	5	#154
GF French Guiana	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana)	1998	5	#107
GP Guadeloupe	INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe)	1990	5	#194
US United States	SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)	2001	5	—
IN India	Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls	—	5	#187,864
SI Slovenia	stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)	—	5	#7,647
AR Argentina	datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)	1988	4	—
AR Argentina	RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)	1988	4	—
CO Colombia	Colombia — Official candidate/public-employee name corpus (datos.gov.co)	—	4	#117
EC Ecuador	INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)	2023	3	—
IN India	Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls	—	3	#193,690
MD Moldova	e-services.md — living population register	—	2	#6,647
DM Dominica	Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025	2025	2	#158
GD Grenada	Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025	2025	2	#131
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)	2016	2	#1,916
IS Iceland	Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)	2026	1	#24,255
KN St. Kitts & Nevis	St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026	2026	1	#110
GY Guyana	Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025	2025	1	#593
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines	Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)	2025	1	#114
IT Italy	ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)	2024	1	#14,772
ZM Zambia	ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results	2021	1	#44
CL Chile	SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)	2017	1	—
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)	2016	1	#2,891
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	2011	1	—
IN India	naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)	1998	1	—
UY Uruguay	Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012)	1999	1	—
UG Uganda	Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names	—	1	#750
EE Estonia	Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023	2023	—	—
FR France	Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009)	—	—	—
HT Haiti	Potomitan — Noms et prénoms haïtiens (Haitian name lexicon)	—	—	—
IT Italy	Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020)	—	—	—
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)	—	—	—

Reference works 3

Wikipedia given-name tokens
Wikipedia surname tokens
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ketty?: We estimate roughly 9.3 thousand people bear Ketty (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Ketty have the most bearers?: Ketty is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled ketty.
Where is Ketty most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ketty is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
How common is Ketty compared with other names?: In Peru, Ketty is the 964th most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.
Is Ketty a male or female name?: Ketty is a female 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 Ketty mean?: Recorded meaning: Ketty är en engelsk smekform till → Katarina.

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About this data

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

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. 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, “Ketty” — the 964th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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