Keith (given name)
Keith is a given name of Gaelic origin.
It means "wood" or "from the battleground" and shares the same derivation as Clan Keith.
The surname derives from a toponym, Keith Marischal in East Lothian, possibly containing the Brittonic element *cet "woods, forest."
Keith was the 298th most common name given to newborn boys in the United States in 2007.
People with the given name
Multiple people
- Keith Adams (disambiguation), several people
- Keith Campbell (disambiguation), multiple people
- Keith Coleman (disambiguation), several people
- Keith Ferguson (disambiguation), several people
- Keith Taylor (disambiguation), multiple people
Individuals
- Keith Abbis, English footballer
- Keith Ablow, American author and TV personality
- Keith Abney II, American football player
- Keith Ackerman, American bishop
- Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player
- Keith Adamson, English footballer
- Keith Agovida, Filipino basketball player
- Keith Ahlers, British race car driver
- Keith Aitken, Australian rugby league player
- Keith Allan (actor), American actor and screenwriter
- Keith Allan (linguist), Australian linguist
- Keith William Allan, Australian solicitor and murder victim
- Keith Anderson, American country music artist
- Keith Andrews (footballer), Irish footballer
- Keith Azopardi, Gibraltarian politician
- Keith Azzopardi Tanti, Maltese politician
- Keith Baldwin, American football player
- Keith Barnes, Australian rugby league player
- Keith Beavers, Canadian backstroke and medley swimmer
- Keith Beebe, American football player
- Keith Beirne, Leitrim Gaelic footballer
- Keith Bennett (basketball), American-Israeli basketball player
- Keith Berry (fighter), American mixed martial artist
- Keith Berry (musician), London-based musician and composer
- Keith Booth, American basketball player
- Keith Braxton, American basketball player
- Keith Buckley, American musician, vocalist for Every Time I Die and The Damned Things
- Keith Caputo, American musician, vocalist for Life of Agony
- Keith Carney, American hockey player
- Keith Carradine, American actor
- Keith Chapman, British television writer and producer
- Keith Chegwin, British television presenter
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, British writer
- Keith Christian, Australian zoologist
- Keith Cieplicki, American basketball player and coach
- Keith C. Clarke, cartographer
- Keith Coogan, American actor
- Keith Cooper, Welsh football referee
- Keith D. Cooper, American computer scientist
- Keith Cooper (American football), American football player
- Keith Cozart, stage name Chief Keef, American rapper and songwriter
- Keith Cupp, American football player
- Keith Dambrot, American college basketball coach
- Keith David, American actor
- Keith Douglas, British poet
- Keith Eaman, Canadian football player
- Keith Earls, Irish rugby union player
- Keith Elam, American hip hop artist
- Keith Ellison, American politician and lawyer
- Keith Emerson, English musician and composer
- Keith Erickson, American basketball player
- Keith Falconer Fletcher, American politician
- Keith Fisher, American ice hockey coach
- Keith Flint, member of British electronica band The Prodigy
- Keith Flowers, American football player
- Keith Floyd, British chef
- Keith Ford, American football player
- Keith Forde, Irish singer-songwriter and musician
- Keith Fowler, American actor, director, producer and educator
- Keith Galloway, Australian rugby league footballer
- Keith Edmund Gavin, American convicted murderer
- Keith Godard, British-born graphic artist and designer
- Keith Valentine Graham, better known as Levi Roots, British-Jamaican musician, celebrity chef and businessman
- Keith Getty, Irish musician
- Keith Gill, American financial analyst and investor
- Keith Green, American musician
- Keith Guzah, Zimbabwean politician
- Keith Haring, American artist
- Keith Harkin, Irish solo musician and former principal singer of all-male musical group Celtic Thunder
- Keith Harris (cricketer), English cricketer
- Keith Harris (record producer), American record producer, songwriter and musician
- Keith Harris (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballer
- Keith Harris (ventriloquist), English ventriloquist
- Keith R. Harris, English financier
- Keith Hart (wrestler), American born-Canadian retired professional wrestler and firefighter
- Keith Henson, American electrical engineer and writer on life extension, cryonics, memetics and evolutionary psychology
- Keith Hernandez, American baseball player
- Keith Hitchins, American historian and professor
- Keith Hodge, American comedian of the Hodgetwins
- Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Keith Ismael, American football player
- Keith Jackson, American sportscaster
- Keith Jackson (defensive tackle), American football player
- Keith Jackson (media executive), British-born Australian journalist, blogger and retired media executive
- Keith Jackson (tight end), American football player
- Keith Jardine, American mixed martial artist
- Keith Jarrett, American jazz pianist
- Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian-American serial killer
- Keith Jones (Atlanta Falcons), American football player
- Keith "End Zone" Jones, American football player
- Keith Keane, Irish footballer
- Keith Kidd, American football player
- Keith Kirkwood, American football player
- Keith Kokkola, Canadian ice hockey player
- Keith Lamb (musician), Australian singer and songwriter
- Keith Langford, American basketball player
- Keith Lee (American football), American football player
- Keith Lee (basketball), American basketball player
- Keith Levene, English musician
- Keith Liddell, American mathematician and author
- Keith Lincoln, American football player
- Keith Lockhart (baseball), American baseball player
- Keith Lulia, Australian-Cook Islander Rugby League player
- Keith Maillard, American-Canadian novelist and poet
- Keith Malley, American comedian and podcaster
- Keith Mansfield, British composer and arranger
- Keith Mansfield (writer), English novelist and publisher
- Keith Mant, British forensic pathologist
- Keith McHenry, American anarchist and activist
- Keith Miller, Australian cricketer
- Keith Moon, English rock drummer
- Keith Moreland, American baseball player
- Keith Morgan (judoka), Canadian judoka
- Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and publisher
- Keith Murray (rapper), American hip hop artist
- Keith Neale, British public health doctor
- Keith Newman, American football player
- Keith Olbermann, American sportscaster and political commentator
- Keith Owens, American basketball player
- Keith Palmer, numerous individuals
- Keith Park, New Zealand Air Marshall of World War II
- Keith Parkinson, American fantasy artist
- Keith Parkinson (rugby league), Australian rugby league player
- Keith Paterson, British Internet celebrity
- Keith Powell, American actor
- Keith Price, American football player
- Keith Randolph Jr., American football player
- Keith Reaser, American football player
- Keith Relf, English musician and vocalist
- Keith Richards, English rock guitarist and songwriter
- Keith Ridgway, Irish writer
- Keith Riglin, Anglican bishop
- Keith Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American businessman and media mogul
- Keith Sanderson (sport shooter), American sport shooter
- Keith Scott (footballer), English professional footballer
- Keith Scott (musician), Canadian guitar player
- Keith Scott (voice actor), Australian voice actor, impressionist and animation historian
- Keith Silverstein, American voice actor, known for lending his voice to English versions of Japanese anime and video games
- Keith Slatter, English rugby league footballer
- Keith Cameron Smith, American entrepreneur, self-help and finance author and motivational speaker
- Keith Stewart, Scottish Admiral and MP in the British Parliament
- Keith Stimely, American Holocaust denier
- Keith Strickland, American rock musician, songwriter and member of the band The B-52s
- Keith Sweat, American R&B singer
- Keith Syers, Anglo-New Zealand academic and academic administrator
- Keith Szarabajka, American actor
- Keith Thomas (director), American film director
- Keith Thornton, American rapper better known as Kool Keith
- Keith Tkachuk, American hockey player
- Keith Towbridge, American football player
- Keith Urban, Australian country music singer
- Keith Vallejo, Mormon bishop
- Keith Van Horn, American basketball player
- Keith Waldrop, American poet, translator, publisher, and academic
- Keith Walters, American academic
- Shane Keith Warne, Australian cricket player
- Keith Wells, American murderer
- Keith West, English rock singer and songwriter
- Keith Whitley, American country music singer
- Keith Daniel Williams, American murderer
- Keith Wood, Irish rugby union player
- Keith Woodrow, Scottish police officer
- Keith Woolner, American baseball analyst
- Keith Yandle, American hockey player
- Keith M L Yeung, horse racing jockey in Hong Kong
- Keith Zettlemoyer, American murderer
Fictional characters
- Keith Dudemeister, a supporting character in Scrubs
- Keith Harcourt, a character in Ashita no Nadja
- Keith Mars, father of the titular character in the American TV-series Veronica Mars
- Keith Partridge, oldest son, lead singer and guitarist in the American sitcom the Partridge Family
- Keith Ramsay, a character in Far Cry 3
- Dr. Keith Ricks, a dolphin researcher, one of the main characters of the TV series Flipper (1995 TV series), portrayed by Brian Wimmer
- Keith (Voltron), a main character of Voltron: Legendary Defender
- Keith Watson, from the TV series ''The Electric Company''