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Keilani vs Keilany

American parents have registered 5,309 Keilanis since 1880, against 1,147 Keilanys. Keilani is still ahead, with 383 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keilani against Keilany, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keilani Keilany

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

Keilani has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Keilani had 383 and Keilany had 191.

Side by side

  Keilani Keilany
Total US births 5,3091,147
Most in one year 466191
Babies in 2025 383191
Estimated living today 5,3001,100
Median age today 63
Peak year 20222025
Best rank 632nd girls1,198th girls
Rank in 2025 727th1,198th
First recorded 19752001
Girls / boys 5,304 / 51,147 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Keilanis alive today are over 6; half the Keilanys are over 3. That is 3 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.

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