Kek as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kek

What is the meaning of the name Kek ?

The baby name Kek is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /kɛk/ (kek, rhymes with "deck").

Kek is Egyptian in Origin.

Kek (pronounced “keck”) derives from Middle Egyptian kk/kkw, “darkness, obscurity.” In the Hermopolitan Ogdoad, Kek (also written Kuk or Keku) is the male personification of primordial night - the shadowed interval before sunrise - so his sphere also implies transition and the first glimmer of light. As a name, it carries a paradoxical meaning: darkness that heralds dawn, mystery that precedes creation.

Used chiefly as a theonym rather than a personal name, Kek rarely appears as a given name until modern times, when mythology enthusiasts and gamers have occasionally adopted it for its clipped, otherworldly sound. Variant forms include Kuk and Keku; the related feminine counterpart is Keket/Kauket. Outside Egyptology, Kek is an unrelated Romanized Hokkien surname and, in online slang, an equivalent of “lol,” associations that may color contemporary perceptions. Overall, Kek feels stark, enigmatic, and unisex.