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Kez

Boys' name

Descendant of Ciardha, through Kerry

Kez has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1994. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Kez, 2012

1 in 732,000

Kez over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kez: meaning, origin, and history

Descendant of Ciardha, through Kerry

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kez means

Kez belongs to the name family reached through Kez → Kerry. Its meaning is “descendant of Ciardha”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kez is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kerry.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Kez is pronounced /ˈkɛz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Kez between 1994 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1994; its best national rank was #9,596 in 1994.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kez?

Kez had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kez sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kez. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kezs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kez was born before 1994 — so the typical Kez is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Kez rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (5)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,596
1994

Kez around the world

Where Kez ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2004
    #3,651
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Kez by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,596
1994
Peak year
1994
5 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kez

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KezraKezionKezlinKeziahMarkez

Sibling names for Kez

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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