Danish use
Source-reporteda female given name derived from Kitty, the English pet form of Katherine
Source for this definition
- Ketty — Danish definition (English Wiktionary via Kaikki)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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Ketty
A given name in French, Spanish and 1 more
Language contexts for this entry: French, Spanish, Danish
feminineLatin script
\kɛ.ti\ · French
- Origin
- Not established
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- 6 cited sources Source-reported
01 / Meaning & origin
About Ketty
Ketty is a feminine given name documented in French, Spanish and Danish.
Dictionary descriptions
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02 / Across borders
Where Ketty is used
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Published statistics
United States, 2001: 5 girls (rank 15352).
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03 / By the numbers
Popularity over time
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France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte)
1900–2025 Spelling: KETTY
- Latest · 2024
- 5
- births
- Rank #4,850
- Peak year
- 1974
- 150 births
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
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| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 | 969 | rounded |
| 1901 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1902 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1903 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1904 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1905 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1906 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1907 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1908 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1909 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1910 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1911 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1912 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1913 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1914 | 5 | 1,095 | rounded |
| 1915 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1916 | 5 | 802 | rounded |
| 1917 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1918 | 5 | 902 | rounded |
| 1919 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1920 | 5 | 692 | rounded |
| 1921 | 5 | 780 | rounded |
| 1922 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1923 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1924 | 5 | 1,205 | rounded |
| 1925 | 5 | 1,368 | rounded |
| 1926 | 5 | 979 | rounded |
| 1927 | 5 | 704 | rounded |
| 1928 | 5 | 1,065 | rounded |
| 1929 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1930 | 5 | 1,344 | rounded |
| 1931 | 5 | 986 | rounded |
| 1932 | 5 | 986 | rounded |
| 1933 | 5 | 859 | rounded |
| 1934 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1935 | 5 | 744 | rounded |
| 1936 | 5 | 716 | rounded |
| 1937 | 5 | 683 | rounded |
| 1938 | 5 | 778 | rounded |
| 1939 | 5 | 763 | rounded |
| 1940 | 10 | 523 | rounded |
| 1941 | 5 | 724 | rounded |
| 1942 | 10 | 501 | rounded |
| 1943 | 5 | 654 | rounded |
| 1944 | 5 | 674 | rounded |
| 1945 | 20 | 408 | rounded |
| 1946 | 25 | 402 | rounded |
| 1947 | 30 | 376 | rounded |
| 1948 | 30 | 408 | rounded |
| 1949 | 15 | 544 | rounded |
| 1950 | 35 | 397 | rounded |
| 1951 | 25 | 460 | rounded |
| 1952 | 35 | 391 | rounded |
| 1953 | 35 | 393 | rounded |
| 1954 | 30 | 444 | rounded |
| 1955 | 30 | 441 | rounded |
| 1956 | 45 | 382 | rounded |
| 1957 | 50 | 368 | rounded |
| 1958 | 35 | 431 | rounded |
| 1959 | 45 | 403 | rounded |
| 1960 | 45 | 396 | rounded |
| 1961 | 55 | 358 | rounded |
| 1962 | 55 | 351 | rounded |
| 1963 | 45 | 404 | rounded |
| 1964 | 55 | 376 | rounded |
| 1965 | 55 | 375 | rounded |
| 1966 | 70 | 331 | rounded |
| 1967 | 65 | 363 | rounded |
| 1968 | 75 | 340 | rounded |
| 1969 | 75 | 352 | rounded |
| 1970 | 85 | 330 | rounded |
| 1971 | 90 | 340 | rounded |
| 1972 | 100 | 331 | rounded |
| 1973 | 105 | 329 | rounded |
| 1974 | 150 | 257 | rounded |
| 1975 | 150 | 256 | rounded |
| 1976 | 140 | 265 | rounded |
| 1977 | 105 | 333 | rounded |
| 1978 | 120 | 310 | rounded |
| 1979 | 110 | 337 | rounded |
| 1980 | 140 | 290 | rounded |
| 1981 | 115 | 333 | rounded |
| 1982 | 110 | 347 | rounded |
| 1983 | 90 | 394 | rounded |
| 1984 | 100 | 376 | rounded |
| 1985 | 85 | 417 | rounded |
| 1986 | 100 | 387 | rounded |
| 1987 | 75 | 453 | rounded |
| 1988 | 60 | 521 | rounded |
| 1989 | 60 | 514 | rounded |
| 1990 | 50 | 594 | rounded |
| 1991 | 55 | 576 | rounded |
| 1992 | 40 | 719 | rounded |
| 1993 | 35 | 742 | rounded |
| 1994 | 30 | 830 | rounded |
| 1995 | 25 | 915 | rounded |
| 1996 | 35 | 810 | rounded |
| 1997 | 30 | 927 | rounded |
| 1998 | 20 | 1,152 | rounded |
| 1999 | 20 | 1,317 | rounded |
| 2000 | 35 | 930 | rounded |
| 2001 | 25 | 1,155 | rounded |
| 2002 | 25 | 1,245 | rounded |
| 2003 | 25 | 1,292 | rounded |
| 2004 | 25 | 1,378 | rounded |
| 2005 | 10 | 2,641 | rounded |
| 2006 | 15 | 2,098 | rounded |
| 2007 | 20 | 1,740 | rounded |
| 2008 | 10 | 2,526 | rounded |
| 2009 | 15 | 2,101 | rounded |
| 2010 | 20 | 1,826 | rounded |
| 2011 | 20 | 1,869 | rounded |
| 2012 | 10 | 3,346 | rounded |
| 2013 | 10 | 3,613 | rounded |
| 2014 | 10 | 3,750 | rounded |
| 2015 | 10 | 3,414 | rounded |
| 2016 | 5 | 6,067 | rounded |
| 2017 | 5 | 6,102 | rounded |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,658 | rounded |
| 2019 | 5 | 5,805 | rounded |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | 5 | 5,696 | rounded |
| 2023 | 5 | 6,510 | rounded |
| 2024 | 5 | 4,850 | rounded |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
About this dataset and its counting rules
Statistics count the spelling “KETTY” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
- Universe
- First given name (« PRENOM : premier prénom ») of persons registered at birth in the French civil register, as held in the RNIPP. Page wording: « prénoms attribués aux enfants nés en France entre 1900 et 2025 (les données avant 2012 ne concernent que France hors Mayotte) »; « personnes nées en France métropolitaine et dans les départements-régions d'outre-mer ». Birth observations, not a living-population count.
- Rounding
- « VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
- Suppression
- Publication threshold (landing page): « Un prénom est diffusé s'il a été attribué au moins 3 fois à des personnes de sexe féminin ou à des personnes de sexe masculin : au niveau national : pour une année de naissance donnée [...] Les prénoms ne remplissant pas ces conditions ne sont pas diffusés. [...] L'absence d'un croisement sexe x prénom x année x zone géographique ne signifie donc pas forcément qu'il n'existe pas dans les données de l'état civil, mais qu'il comporte deux occurrences ou moins. » A missing sex/name/year row therefore means ≤ 2 occurrences, never 0. This release contains no grouped rare-names row (older releases used `_PRENOMS_RARES`); the spelling RARES present in the file is a real name (« le prénom d'origine roumaine « Rareș » apparaît en tant que « RARES » »).
- Ranking
- « RANG : rang calculé à partir des effectifs non arrondis selon le sexe, l'année de naissance et la zone géographique ; en cas d'égalité sur les valeurs non arrondies, un tri aléatoire est appliqué. » Ranks are published by INSEE from unrounded counts and are preserved verbatim; NameStoria never recomputes them from the rounded counts. Ranks are unique within a sex/year (random tie-break by INSEE).
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
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History
Notable bearers
People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.
Ketty Lester
born 1934American actress, recording artist
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Sources for this page
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-17.
Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6
- Wikidata Q19968543CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- Wiktionary: KettyCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- Greek Wiktionary: KettyCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- French Wiktionary: KettyCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
- Ketty — Danish definition (English Wiktionary via Kaikki)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- Turkish Wiktionary: KettyCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.