The name Kay is both a surname and a given name. In English-speaking countries, it is usually a feminine name, often a short form of Katherine or one of its variants; but it is also used as a first name in its own right, and also as a masculine name (for example in India, the Netherlands, and Sweden). The alternative spelling Kaye is encountered as a surname, but also occasionally as a given name, such as actress Kaye Ballard.
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Female
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Kay Armen (1915–2011), stage name of Armenuhi Manoogian, American Armenian singer
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Kay Curley Bennett (1922–1977), Navajo artist and writer
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Kay Burley (born 1960), Sky News founder and presenter
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Kay B. Cobb (1942–2023), American judge
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Kay Copland, Scottish sport shooter
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Kay Elson (born 1947), Australian politician
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Kay Francis (1905–1968), American actress
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Kay Hagan (1953–2019), American politician
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Kay Hull (born 1954), Australian politician
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Kay Bailey Hutchison (born 1943), American lawyer, politician, and diplomat
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Kay Ivey (born 1944), governor of Alabama
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Kay Kendall (1927–1959), British actress and comedian
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Kay Kinsman (1909–1998), Canadian artist and writer
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Kay Lahusen (1930–2021), American photographer, writer and gay rights activist
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Kay Matheson (1928-2013), teacher, Gaelic scholar, one of four students involved in the 1950 removal of the Stone of Scone
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Kay Mazzo (born 1946), American ballet dancer and educator
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Kay A. Orr (1939), 36th governor of Nebraska, US
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Kay Toinette K. T. Oslin (1942–2020), American country music singer-songwriter
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Kay Panabaker (born 1990), American actress
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Kay Parker (1944–2022), English pornographic actress
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Kay Purcell (1963–2020), English actress
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Kay Redfield Jamison (born 1946), American psychologist and writer
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Kay Starr (1922–2016), stage name of Katherine Starks, American pop and jazz singer
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Kay Thompson (1909–1998), American author
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Kay Tse (born 1977), Hong Kong Cantopop singer
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Kay (singer) (born 1985), Canadian singer-songwriter
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F. Kay Wallis (born ), American traditional healer and politician
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Kay Young (born 1944), Canadian politician
Male
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Kay Bell, American football player and professional wrestler
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Kay Christofferson, American politician
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Kay van Dijk, Dutch volleyball player
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Kay Kyser, American bandleader and radio personality
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Kay Nielsen, Danish illustrator
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Kay Pollak, Swedish film director
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Kay Stephenson, American football player and coach
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Prince Kay One, German singer and rapper
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Jay Kay, British musician and frontman of British band Jamiroquai
Fictional characters
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Agent K, a character in the Men In Black film series and animated series
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Kay Adams-Corleone, a character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather
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Sir Kay, character from Arthurian legend
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Kay Harker, character from the book The Box of Delights by John Masefield
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Kay, a protagonist in the video game Legend of Kay
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Kay, also spelled Kai, a character in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen
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Kay, a character in the Vertigo comic series Fables, based on the above
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Kay Faraday, a character in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
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Kay Engel, a character in Freier Fall (2013 film)
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Kay, protagonist from the video game Sea of Solitude
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Kay Swiss, a character in Scott the Woz
See also
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K, the eleventh letter in the Latin alphabet
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Kai
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Hurricane Kay (disambiguation)
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Kay (surname)
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Kay Musical Instrument Company, a US musical instrument manufacturer
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Kaye (disambiguation)
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Kaya (disambiguation)
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Kaylee
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Kayla
