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Keily vs Keino

American parents have registered 5,360 Keilys since 1880, against 89 Keinos. Keily is still ahead, with 194 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keily against Keino, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keily 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

Of the 48 years in which either name was published, Keily for 42 years and Keino for 6 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Keily Keino
Total US births 5,36089
Most in one year 32819
Babies in 2025 194under 5
Estimated living today 5,30080
Median age today 1046
Peak year 20181972
Best rank 827th girls2,080th boys
Rank in 2025 1,190thunranked
First recorded 19691972
Girls / boys 5,355 / 50 / 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 Keilys are over 10. That is 36 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: Keily and Keino.