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Keiana vs Keily

American parents have registered 5,360 Keilys since 1880, against 1,429 Keianas. Keily is still ahead, with 194 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keiana against Keily, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keiana Keily

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 52 years in which either name was published, Keily for 26 years and Keiana for 26 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Keiana Keily
Total US births 1,4295,360
Most in one year 66328
Babies in 2025 5194
Estimated living today 1,4005,300
Median age today 2610
Peak year 19992018
Best rank 2,258th girls827th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd1,190th
First recorded 19761969
Girls / boys 1,429 / 05,355 / 5

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 Keianas alive today are over 26; half the Keilys are over 10. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Keiana Keily
France 5 Keïana55 Keïly
England and Wales 2611

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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