Ketevan is from the Georgian ქეთევან (Ketevan) — foundational Georgian feminine royal name. A modern American baby name in the broader Georgian-Caucasian heritage aesthetic. Ketevan is one of the foundational Georgian feminine names — central to traditional Georgian Orthodox heritage. Queen Ketevan of Kakheti (c. 1565-1624) — foundational Georgian queen consort of Kakheti + foundational martyr of Persian-Safavid Empire + tortured to death by Shah Abbas I (1624 Shiraz Iran) for refusing to convert to Islam — central to foundational Georgian Orthodox Church canonized saint heritage (foundational Saint Ketevan Day September 13) + foundational subject of foundational Italian missionary Augustinian friar Ambrosio dos Anjos preservation of her relics (her right hand returned to Georgia 2014) + foundational Andrea della Valle Roman Catholic + Georgian Orthodox veneration.
Featured throughout Georgian heritage.
Ketevan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ketevan reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.