{{about|the name}} {{Infobox name | name = Kay | image = | image_size = | caption = | pronunciation = '''''K''''' | gender = Unisex | meaning = | region = | origin = | related names = Katty, Kaye, Kayanna, Kail, Kayla, Kaylee, Kaylin, Kaylynn, Kaylinn | footnotes = }} 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).
==Women== * Kay Armen (1915–2011), stage name of Armenuhi Manoogian, American Armenian singer * Kay Curley Bennett (1922–1997), Navajo artist and writer * Kay Boyle (1902–1992), American writer * 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 {{Circa|1944}}), American traditional healer and politician * Kay Young (born 1944), Canadian politician
==Men== * 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
==Fiction== * 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 Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow's character in ''Marty Supreme'' * Kay Swiss, a character in ''Scott the Woz''
==See also== * K, the eleventh letter in the Latin alphabet * Kai * Kay (surname) * Kay Musical Instrument Company, a US musical instrument manufacturer * Hurricane Kay (disambiguation) *Kaya (disambiguation) *Kaye (disambiguation) *Kayla (disambiguation) *Kaylee
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