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Keily vs Keiona

American parents have registered 5,360 Keilys since 1880, against 885 Keionas. Keily is still ahead, with 194 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keily Keiona

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 52 years in which either name was published, Keily for 28 years and Keiona for 24 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Keily Keiona
Total US births 5,360885
Most in one year 32853
Babies in 2025 194under 5
Estimated living today 5,300870
Median age today 1029
Peak year 20181996
Best rank 827th girls2,423rd girls
Rank in 2025 1,190thunranked
First recorded 19691974
Girls / boys 5,355 / 5885 / 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 Keionas alive today are over 29; half the Keilys are over 10. 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: Keily and Keiona.