Keith Forename
820th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,061,865 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Niue
Keith Forename Definition:
A Gaelic name, meaning: The wind. A line of Scottish earls, but in this country a name distinguished by William Keith, America’s landscape poet-painter.
Keith Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 640,330 | 1:566 | 104 |
| England | 100% | 194,629 | 1:286 | 52 |
| Canada | 100% | 57,437 | 1:577 | 121 |
| Australia | - | 26,739 | 1:511 | 117 |
| South Africa | 99% | 18,890 | 1:2,887 | 522 |
| Scotland | 100% | 11,655 | 1:459 | 104 |
| New Zealand | - | 11,473 | 1:395 | 77 |
| Wales | 100% | 10,743 | 1:288 | 59 |
| Kenya | 100% | 10,382 | 1:4,460 | 720 |
| Philippines | 79% | 7,956 | 1:13,324 | 1,640 |
| Jamaica | - | 6,979 | 1:413 | 76 |
| Ireland | 100% | 6,380 | 1:728 | 145 |
| Northern Ireland | 99% | 5,327 | 1:346 | 83 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 4,078 | 1:5,100 | 865 |
| Brazil | 100% | 2,689 | 1:79,671 | 4,808 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 2,679 | 1:508 | 49 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 2,340 | 1:75,882 | 4,750 |
| Malawi | 100% | 2,009 | 1:8,518 | 1,008 |
| Thailand | 100% | 1,980 | 1:35,387 | 4,218 |
| Zambia | - | 1,675 | 1:9,466 | 1,059 |
| Malta | - | 1,665 | 1:258 | 46 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,586 | 1:23,838 | 2,295 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,515 | 1:20,338 | 2,686 |
| Barbados | - | 1,409 | 1:206 | 22 |
| Zimbabwe | 97% | 1,393 | 1:11,072 | 1,440 |
| Hong Kong | - | 1,220 | 1:6,355 | 564 |
| Guyana | 100% | 1,187 | 1:643 | 60 |
| France | 96% | 1,148 | 1:57,901 | 1,650 |
| Ghana | 100% | 1,124 | 1:24,009 | 1,692 |
| Uganda | 97% | 1,104 | 1:37,099 | 2,424 |
| Angola | - | 1,080 | 1:24,969 | 1,864 |
| Bahamas | - | 1,065 | 1:375 | 67 |
| Poland | 50% | 1,037 | 1:36,670 | 1,080 |
| Germany | 100% | 970 | 1:99,668 | 2,116 |
| Singapore | 96% | 957 | 1:6,570 | 1,201 |
| India | 100% | 857 | 1:1,417,594 | 82,874 |
| Papua New Guinea | 95% | 705 | 1:11,564 | 1,169 |
| Malaysia | 93% | 676 | 1:45,044 | 3,806 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 662 | 1:25,532 | 2,246 |
| Spain | 100% | 641 | 1:72,590 | 2,461 |
| Indonesia | - | 606 | 1:425,683 | 33,614 |
| Japan | - | 604 | 1:211,897 | 7,058 |
| Tanzania | 59% | 546 | 1:96,682 | 5,486 |
| Sweden | 98% | 545 | 1:18,088 | 1,300 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 531 | 1:19,645 | 1,847 |
| China | - | 501 | 1:2,726,658 | 47,622 |
| Oman | - | 446 | 1:9,212 | 1,128 |
| Vanuatu | - | 371 | 1:706 | 186 |
| Kuwait | - | 323 | 1:11,719 | 1,383 |
| Portugal | - | 323 | 1:32,232 | 1,307 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 322 | 1:22,211 | 2,255 |
| Botswana | 100% | 317 | 1:6,891 | 1,092 |
| Gabon | 100% | 281 | 1:6,702 | 1,252 |
| Belize | 100% | 269 | 1:1,317 | 291 |
| Egypt | 100% | 260 | 1:353,465 | 10,818 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 247 | 1:33,253 | 1,795 |
| Jersey | 100% | 238 | 1:420 | 95 |
| Bahrain | - | 237 | 1:5,691 | 904 |
| Swaziland | - | 231 | 1:5,628 | 945 |
| Peru | 76% | 220 | 1:144,507 | 4,392 |
| Guernsey | 100% | 219 | 1:289 | 74 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 219 | 1:509 | 35 |
| Namibia | - | 211 | 1:11,394 | 1,321 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 208 | 1:145,201 | 5,864 |
| Grenada | 100% | 202 | 1:535 | 67 |
| Mexico | 83% | 199 | 1:623,841 | 6,323 |
| Denmark | - | 195 | 1:28,972 | 1,422 |
| Suriname | 100% | 181 | 1:3,054 | 705 |
| Norway | 100% | 177 | 1:28,996 | 1,500 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 172 | 1:578 | 64 |
| Belgium | 100% | 167 | 1:68,803 | 2,869 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 161 | 1:5,410 | 607 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 153 | 1:717 | 125 |
| Estonia | 81% | 151 | 1:8,711 | 1,050 |
| Guam | - | 143 | 1:1,123 | 249 |
| Bermuda | - | 141 | 1:460 | 65 |
| Iraq | 100% | 130 | 1:269,368 | 4,024 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 124 | 1:1,434 | 258 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 120 | 1:457 | 54 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| Chile | 65% | 112 | 1:157,207 | 3,240 |
| Morocco | - | 109 | 1:315,125 | 6,796 |
| Gibraltar | - | 104 | 1:328 | 66 |
| Panama | 100% | 99 | 1:39,460 | 2,945 |
| Liberia | 100% | 95 | 1:46,443 | 2,524 |
| South Korea | - | 93 | 1:59,617 | 3,746 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 90 | 1:681 | 120 |
| Greece | 100% | 88 | 1:124,256 | 3,091 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 83 | 1:377 | 24 |
| Ecuador | - | 79 | 1:224,391 | 3,652 |
| Qatar | 100% | 77 | 1:30,774 | 4,184 |
| Russia | 79% | 76 | 1:1,897,812 | 13,039 |
| Italy | 73% | 75 | 1:814,161 | 7,482 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 75 | 1:463 | 65 |
| Afghanistan | 75% | 67 | 1:486,918 | 8,233 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 61 | 1:9,524 | 979 |
| Nicaragua | 88% | 59 | 1:102,006 | 3,533 |
| Brunei | - | 58 | 1:7,234 | 659 |
| Seychelles | - | 58 | 1:1,598 | 376 |
| DR Congo | 67% | 55 | 1:1,342,320 | 36,691 |
| Pakistan | 81% | 52 | 1:3,737,648 | 40,154 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 49 | 1:485,096 | 27,727 |
| Cameroon | - | 46 | 1:469,794 | 15,475 |
| Finland | 100% | 42 | 1:130,552 | 2,715 |
| Macau | - | 39 | 1:15,595 | 312 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 38 | 1:153 | 32 |
| Costa Rica | 68% | 37 | 1:128,863 | 3,682 |
| Honduras | 100% | 37 | 1:238,310 | 5,124 |
| Mozambique | - | 36 | 1:756,760 | 1,518 |
| Austria | 100% | 35 | 1:243,263 | 3,286 |
| Colombia | 76% | 35 | 1:1,365,112 | 13,587 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 28 | 1:473 | 38 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 28 | 1:3,307,968 | 3,383 |
| Marshall Islands | 89% | 27 | 1:1,897 | 291 |
| Laos | - | 25 | 1:263,474 | 265 |
| Myanmar | - | 25 | 1:2,077,931 | 882 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 23 | 1:2,377 | 477 |
| Israel | 95% | 22 | 1:381,951 | 8,592 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 21 | 1:4,049 | 166 |
| Lebanon | 93% | 19 | 1:296,188 | 5,053 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 18 | 1:31,336 | 1,560 |
| Mongolia | - | 18 | 1:163,045 | 8,219 |
| Libya | - | 16 | 1:388,832 | 1,019 |
| Hungary | 86% | 15 | 1:652,785 | 2,218 |
| American Samoa | - | 14 | 1:3,989 | 735 |
| Argentina | 90% | 14 | 1:3,055,232 | 9,516 |
| Guatemala | - | 14 | 1:1,150,602 | 4,788 |
| Cook Islands | 100% | 13 | 1:1,396 | 227 |
| Niue | - | 13 | 1:123 | 22 |
| Croatia | 100% | 11 | 1:383,371 | 4,897 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 11 | 1:286 | 37 |
| Haiti | - | 11 | 1:975,178 | 14,386 |
| Congo | 75% | 10 | 1:500,920 | 8,695 |
| Montserrat | - | 10 | 1:488 | 37 |
| Bangladesh | - | 9 | 1:17,717,930 | 19,122 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 9 | 1:1,808,148 | 22,232 |
| East Timor | - | 9 | 1:135,375 | 266 |
| Palau | - | 9 | 1:2,412 | 36 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 9 | 1:787,629 | 675 |
| Benin | - | 7 | 1:1,510,835 | 32,846 |
| Dominica | - | 7 | 1:10,782 | 397 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 7 | 1:2,535,264 | 17,782 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 7 | 1:332 | 62 |
| Czechia | 95% | 6 | 1:1,776,027 | 4,577 |
| Monaco | 100% | 6 | 1:6,411 | 917 |
| Turkey | - | 6 | 1:12,966,952 | 37,072 |
| Belarus | 50% | 5 | 1:1,896,477 | 8,406 |
| Curaçao | - | 5 | 1:31,161 | 859 |
| El Salvador | - | 5 | 1:1,268,357 | 7,255 |
| Georgia | - | 4 | 1:934,616 | 13,351 |
| Mali | - | 4 | 1:4,244,439 | 5,329 |
| New Caledonia | - | 4 | 1:67,541 | 2,087 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 4 | 1:887,575 | 4,962 |
| Rwanda | - | 4 | 1:2,842,858 | 2,668 |
| Saint Martin | - | 4 | 1:8,936 | 133 |
| Samoa | - | 4 | 1:48,798 | 712 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 4 | 1:1,327,516 | 4,597 |
| Tonga | - | 4 | 1:26,859 | 378 |
| Armenia | - | 3 | 1:972,918 | 8,284 |
| Bulgaria | - | 3 | 1:2,330,130 | 16,302 |
| Burkina Faso | - | 3 | 1:6,126,490 | 60,119 |
| Cuba | - | 3 | 1:3,835,517 | 8,849 |
| Guinea | - | 3 | 1:3,952,882 | 6,312 |
| Iceland | - | 3 | 1:122,006 | 4,203 |
| Ivory Coast | - | 3 | 1:7,691,978 | 82,363 |
| Jordan | 58% | 3 | 1:2,942,258 | 8,136 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 3 | 1:12,619 | 697 |
| Nepal | - | 3 | 1:9,495,784 | 71,056 |
| Ukraine | - | 3 | 1:15,166,636 | 17,541 |
| Uruguay | - | 3 | 1:1,142,546 | 10,015 |
| Albania | 60% | 2 | 1:1,523,285 | 33,816 |
| Andorra | - | 2 | 1:41,444 | 944 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 2 | 1:4,821,472 | 33,780 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 2 | 1:2,986,638 | 34,954 |
| Latvia | - | 2 | 1:1,007,822 | 4,547 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Paraguay | - | 2 | 1:3,618,402 | 11,946 |
| Yemen | - | 2 | 1:13,148,376 | 10,677 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Eritrea | - | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Faroe Islands | - | 1 | 1:49,127 | 2,467 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 1 | 1:1,728,218 | 422 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:11,551,019 | 3,224 |
| Tajikistan | - | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
Keith (80,997) may also be a surname.
Keith Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A Gaelic name, meaning: The wind. A line of Scottish earls, but in this country a name distinguished by William Keith, America’s landscape poet-painter.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
A Gaelic name, meaning: A Scottish earldom, but higher distinction has come to the name from William Keith, California landscape painter.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Keith Forename Popularity
Keith Demographics
Average Keith Salary in
United States
$48,189 USD
Per year
Rank:
144,773 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.181979
Rank: 104 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
110.71%
Sample size: 311,304 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
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