Keila vs Keino
American parents have registered 7,424 Keilas since 1880, against 89 Keinos. Keila is still ahead, with 136 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Keila Keino
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
Keila has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1956 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1972, when Keila had 27 and Keino had 19.
Side by side
| Keila | Keino | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 7,424 | 89 |
| Most in one year | 239 | 19 |
| Babies in 2025 | 136 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 7,300 | 80 |
| Median age today | 21 | 46 |
| Peak year | 2006 | 1972 |
| Best rank | 1,066th girls | 2,080th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,548th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1956 | 1972 |
| Girls / boys | 7,424 / 0 | 0 / 89 |
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 Keinos alive today are over 46; half the Keilas are over 21. That is 25 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: Keila and Keino.