Kay: Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, & Inspiration

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Kay + 7% this year Neutral Rare Updated: June 9, 2019 Updated: June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

• Arabic : Beloved
• Hebrew : Crown of laurels
• Hebrew : Crown of laurels
• American : Bright; beautiful
• Irish, Scottish, English : Slender; keeper of the keys
• Arabic : Laurel
• Aborigine : Boomerang

Girl name variations

Kalila Cailey Cailie Caylie Kailey Kaililah Kaleah Kalela Kalie Kalilah Kaly Kaykay Kaylee Kayllie Kyle Kylila Kylilah Kayla Kaila Kaylynn Kailyn Kaylene Kaylah Kayln Kayley Kaylie Kayli Kylie Kayleigh Leigh Kayle

Boy name origins & meanings

• Latin : Rejoice; variation of Gaius
• Welsh, German : Rejoicer; fort; joyful

Boy name variations

Caius Cai Caio Kaye Keye Keyes Keys Cais Kai Kaysie Keh MacKay

How Popular Is The Name Kay

Family name origins & meanings

• English : nickname from Middle English ca ‘jackdaw’, from an unattested Old Norse ká. See also Daw.
• English : nickname from Middle English cai, kay, kei ‘left-handed’, ‘clumsy’.
• English : metonymic occupational name for a locksmith, from Middle English keye, kaye ‘key’. Compare Care, Kear.
• English : topographic name for someone living on or near a quay, Middle English kay(e), Old French cay.
• English : from a Middle English personal name which figures in Arthurian legend. It is found in Old Welsh as Cai, Middle Welsh Kei, and is ultimately from the Latin personal name Gaius.
• Scottish and Irish : reduced form of McKay.
• French : variant of Quay, cognate with 2.
• Much shortened form of any of various names, mostly Eastern European, beginning with the letter K-.
• Variant of Danish and Frisian Kai.

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