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Keilani vs Keionna

American parents have registered 5,309 Keilanis since 1880, against 659 Keionnas. Keilani is still ahead, with 383 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keilani Keionna

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 51 years in which either name was published, Keilani for 35 years and Keionna for 16 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Keilani Keionna
Total US births 5,309659
Most in one year 46636
Babies in 2025 383under 5
Estimated living today 5,300650
Median age today 625
Peak year 20222001
Best rank 632nd girls3,631st girls
Rank in 2025 727thunranked
First recorded 19751979
Girls / boys 5,304 / 5659 / 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 Keionnas alive today are over 25; half the Keilanis are over 6. That is 19 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: Keilani and Keionna.