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Keidy vs Keira

American parents have registered 33,843 Keiras since 1880, against 883 Keidys. Keira is still ahead, with 469 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keidy against Keira, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keidy Keira

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

Keira has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1962 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Keidy had 154 and Keira had 524.

Side by side

  Keidy Keira
Total US births 88333,843
Most in one year 1543,022
Babies in 2025 26469
Estimated living today 88034,000
Median age today 416
Peak year 20232006
Best rank 1,446th girls110th girls
Rank in 2025 4,987th621st
First recorded 19991962
Girls / boys 883 / 033,836 / 7

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 Keiras alive today are over 16; half the Keidys are over 4. That is 12 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 Keidy Keira
France 5 Keïdy780

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: Keidy and Keira.