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Kay

in Illinois

There are 837 people with the last name "Kay" in Illinois.

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Ranking in Illinois

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Kay 1,266
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  1. is 1,262nd most common Hopper
  2. is 1,263rd most common Oleary
  3. is 1,264th most common Bruns
  4. is 1,265th most common Cowan
  5. is 1,266th most common Kay
  6. is 1,267th most common Hurt
  7. is 1,268th most common Law
  8. is 1,269th most common Morrissey
  9. is 1,270th most common Childers

Similar Names and Nicknames

Key, Kao, Kai, Kau, Ka, Koy, Kah, Kae, Kuy, Kiy

Most Common First Names for Kay

John, Robert, David, Michael, Brian, Thomas, James, Barbara, Ronald, Donald

Meaning & History

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Kay

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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