Kess
Meaning of Kess
The appellation Kess, formally rendered as /kɛs/, functions in Anglo-American usage as a succinct feminine given name whose etymology may be linked both to the medieval diminutive Kessa of Katherine and to a phonetic variant of Cassandra, while its homography with the German adjective kess (“bold,” “cheeky”) subtly reinforces a connotation of spirited confidence; having emerged in the late twentieth century as an autonomous name rather than solely as a pet form, Kess has maintained a modest yet consistent presence in United States birth records, with annual occurrences ranging from five to fourteen and Social Security Administration rankings lingering in the high eight hundreds between 1995 and 2002.
Pronunciation
- Pronunced as KESS (/kɛs/)
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