Kei is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Kei is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Kei each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Kei will meet someone with the same name. So, Kei is a very special name!
In fact, the name Kei hardly fits the trend of first names. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Kei wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1980, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 6,417, 18 parents chose it in 1980 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Kei, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kei was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Kei a few times. Among all newborn babies, it ranked 11,422, for a total of 17 newborns. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Kei seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a quite popular first letter for given names. That’s because 7.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. Only the initial letters A and J are more common for first names.
With only three letters, the name Kei is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 7.7% of all first names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Kei and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kei, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kei
Kei
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
E
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
E
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kei sounds like this:
