Kay

This article is about the name. For other uses, see Kay (disambiguation).

Kay

Pronunciation	K
Gender	Unisex
Other names
Related names	Katty, Kaye, Kayanna, Kail, Kayla, Kaylee, Kaylin, Kaylynn, Kaylinn

The name Kay is found both as a surname and as 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.

Name

Female

• Kay Armen (1915–2011), stage name of Armenuhi Manoogian, American Armenian singer
• Kay Burley (born 1960), Sky News founder and presenter
• Kay B. Cobb (1942–2023), American judge
• Kay Copland, Scottish sport shooter
• Kay Elson (born 1947), Australian politician
• Kay Francis (1905–1968), American actress
• Kay Hagan (1953–2019), American politician
• Kay Hull (born 1954), Australian politician
• Kay Bailey Hutchison (born 1943), American lawyer, politician, and diplomat
• Kay Ivey (born 1944), governor of Alabama
• Kay Kendall (1927–1959), British actress and comedian
• Kay Kinsman (1909–1998), Canadian artist and writer
• Kay Lahusen (1930–2021), American photographer, writer and gay rights activist
• Kay Matheson (1928-2013), teacher, Gaelic scholar, one of four students involved in the 1950 removal of the Stone of Scone
• Kay Mazzo (born 1946), American ballet dancer and educator
• Kay A. Orr (1939), 36th governor of Nebraska, US
• Kay Toinette K. T. Oslin (1942–2020), American country music singer-songwriter
• Kay Panabaker (born 1990), American actress
• Kay Parker (1944–2022), English pornographic actress
• Kay Purcell (1963–2020), English actress
• Kay Redfield Jamison (born 1946), American psychologist and writer
• Kay Starr (1922–2016), stage name of Katherine Starks, American pop and jazz singer
• Kay Thompson (1909–1998), American author
• Kay Tse (born 1977), Hong Kong Cantopop singer
• Kay (singer) (born 1985), Canadian singer-songwriter
• F. Kay Wallis (born c. 1944), American traditional healer and politician
• Kay Young (born 1944), Canadian politician

Male

• Kay Bell, American football player and professional wrestler
• Kay Christofferson, American politician
• Kay van Dijk, Dutch volleyball player
• Kay Kyser, American bandleader and radio personality
• Kay Nielsen, Danish illustrator
• Kay Pollak, Swedish film director
• Kay Stephenson, American football player and coach
• Prince Kay One, German singer and rapper
• Jay Kay, British musician and frontman of British band Jamiroquai

Fictional characters

• Agent K, a character in the Men In Black film series and animated series
• Kay Adams-Corleone, a character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather
• Sir Kay, character from Arthurian legend
• Kay Harker, character from the book The Box of Delights by John Masefield
• Kay, a protagonist in the video game Legend of Kay
• Kay, also spelled Kai, a character in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen
• Kay, a character in the Vertigo comic series Fables, based on the above
• Kay Faraday, a character in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
• Kay Engel, a character in Freier Fall (2013 film)
• Kay, protagonist from the video game Sea of Solitude
• Kay Swiss, a character in Scott the Woz

See also

• K, the eleventh letter in the Latin alphabet
• Kai
• Hurricane Kay (disambiguation)
• Kay (surname)
• Kay Musical Instrument Company, a US musical instrument manufacturer
• Kaye (disambiguation)
• Kaya (disambiguation)
• Kaylee