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Keily vs Keirra

American parents have registered 5,360 Keilys since 1880, against 1,471 Keirras. Keily is still ahead, with 194 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keily Keirra

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 46 years in which either name was published, Keily for 29 years and Keirra for 17 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Keily Keirra
Total US births 5,3601,471
Most in one year 32881
Babies in 2025 194under 5
Estimated living today 5,3001,500
Median age today 1024
Peak year 20182008
Best rank 827th girls2,380th girls
Rank in 2025 1,190thunranked
First recorded 19691984
Girls / boys 5,355 / 51,471 / 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 Keirras alive today are over 24; half the Keilys are over 10. That is 14 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Keily Keirra
England and Wales 116

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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