Keith
Fewer than 130 people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them men, so meeting one would stick in your memory. Keith is Celtic at root, tied to words for wood and forest.
Keith Pronunciation
What Keith means
Where Keith comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Keith began as a place in Scotland, a patch of land in East Lothian whose Celtic name meant wood or forest. From that ground came a surname, carried by the powerful Clan Keith, and only later a given name for a boy. The Pictish root sits close to the Welsh coed, forest. So the oldest sense of Keith is green and rooted, a stand of trees handed to a family.
The Polish gloss reads wojownik, warrior. That meaning was attached later, likely through the Keith earls who served as Marischal of Scotland, hereditary keepers of the king's weapons. The wood turned martial in reputation. One bearer, James Keith, left Scotland to become a field marshal in Prussia under Frederick the Great.
The name never grew diminutives. It stands alone, with no soft ending to shrink it, no pet form in Polish or English.
On a Polish class register, Keith would sit among the imported names, easy to read and hard to cut down. Its meaning stays double: wood in the old Celtic ground, warrior in the Polish telling.
How many people are named Keith
1 in 168080 men in Poland is named Keith. 130 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2924 among male names.
Keith's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Keith as a middle name
Keith is a first name for 130 men in Poland and a middle name for another 118, a 52/48 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 643rd, between Kaan (118) and Patrik (117).
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#641 Hendrik118
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#642 Kaan118
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#643 Keith118
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#644 Patrik117
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#645 Paulo117