Word.ws English Dictionary

Keith

/kiːθ/

Keith proper noun: a Scottish surname.

Proper noun

Keith (countable and uncountable, plural Keiths)

  1. (countable) A Scottish surname.
  2. (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • “I think allowing this moniker, ‘Defund the police,’ to ever get out there, was not a good thing,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) told The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel on Thursday.2021 November 5, Chris Cillizza, “Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake”, in CNN
  3. (rare) A female given name from surname.
  4. A town in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ4250).
  5. A town in Tatiara council area, south-east South Australia.
  6. An unincorporated community in Catoosa County, Georgia, United States.
  7. An unincorporated community in Noble County, Ohio, United States.
  8. An unincorporated community and coal town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.
  9. A ghost town in Lincoln, Forest County, Wisconsin, United States.

Forms of Keith

pluralKeiths

Origin of Keith

* As a Scottish surname, from the placename in Moray, Scotland, from Scottish Gaelic Cèith, meaning "wood" or "from the battleground," which is probably borrowed from Pictish *ᚉᚓᚈ (cēt) meaning "wood", or a forest, from Proto-Brythonic *koɨd. * As a German surname, from Middle High German kit (“sprout, offspring”); compare Middle High German kint.

Words formed from Keith

Phrases with Keith

Words that rhyme with Keith

Questions about Keith

What does Keith mean?
Keith means a Scottish surname.
What part of speech is Keith?
Keith is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Keith?
Keith is pronounced /kiːθ/.

Words near Keith in the dictionary

  1. keistered
  2. keistering
  3. keisters
  4. keitai
  5. keitais
  6. Keith
  7. Keith County
  8. Keith Hall
  9. Keith number
  10. Keith numbers
  11. keithconnite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Keith (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Keith.wav.

Cite this entry: “Keith.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/keith. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.