# Kees (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kees/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 141 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 141 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | 8,483 |
| 1998 | 6 | 9,081 |
| 1999 | 8 | 7,523 |
| 2001 | 9 | 7,223 |
| 2002 | 9 | 7,355 |
| 2003 | 11 | 6,513 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,692 |
| 2005 | 11 | 6,886 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,071 |
| 2007 | 10 | 7,895 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10,498 |
| 2009 | 7 | 10,462 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,278 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,430 |
| 2022 | 5 | 13,353 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 3 | 2,943 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |

## People named Kees

- Kees van Dongen, Dutch painter (1877-1968)
- Kees Rijvers, Dutch footballer and manager (1926-2024)
- Kees Kist, Dutch footballer
- Kees Schouhamer Immink, Dutch electrical engineer, physicist, inventor and university teacher (born 1946)
- Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
- Kees van Ierssel, Dutch footballer
- Kees Mijnders, Dutch footballer (1912-2002)
- Kees Broekman, Dutch speed skater and speed skating coach (1927-1992)
- Kees Luyckx, Dutch association football player
- Kees Smit, Dutch footballer (born 2006)
- Kees van der Staaij, Dutch former politician
- Kees van Wonderen, Dutch footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.