Keanu vs Keary
American parents have registered 8,920 Keanus since 1880, against 684 Kearys. Keanu is still ahead, with 427 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Keanu Keary
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 74 years in which either name was published, Keary for 39 years and Keanu for 35 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Keanu | Keary | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 8,920 | 684 |
| Most in one year | 562 | 40 |
| Babies in 2025 | 427 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 8,800 | 590 |
| Median age today | 11 | 52 |
| Peak year | 2020 | 1974 |
| Best rank | 515th boys | 1,520th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 648th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1990 | 1949 |
| Girls / boys | 225 / 8,695 | 104 / 580 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Kearys alive today are over 52; half the Keanus are over 11. That is 41 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Keanu and Keary.