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Keara vs Kearsten

American parents have registered 4,767 Kearas since 1880, against 530 Kearstens. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keara against Kearsten, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keara Kearsten

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

Keara has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1979, when Keara had 13 and Kearsten had 6.

Side by side

  Keara Kearsten
Total US births 4,767530
Most in one year 25932
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 4,700520
Median age today 2526
Peak year 19992001
Best rank 831st girls3,940th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19691978
Girls / boys 4,767 / 0530 / 0

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Keara and Kearsten.