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Keilani vs Keisy

American parents have registered 5,309 Keilanis since 1880, against 779 Keisys. Keilani is still ahead, with 383 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keilani Keisy

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 1996, when Keilani had 22 and Keisy had 9.

Side by side

  Keilani Keisy
Total US births 5,309779
Most in one year 46661
Babies in 2025 38336
Estimated living today 5,300770
Median age today 69
Peak year 20222022
Best rank 632nd girls2,792nd girls
Rank in 2025 727th3,975th
First recorded 19751995
Girls / boys 5,304 / 5779 / 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 Keisys alive today are over 9; half the Keilanis are over 6. 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 Keisy.