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Keoki vs Keon

American parents have registered 9,275 Keons since 1880, against 508 Keokis. Keon is still ahead, with 108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keoki Keon

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 56 years in which either name was published, Keon for 55 years and Keoki for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Keoki Keon
Total US births 5089,275
Most in one year 19328
Babies in 2025 under 5108
Estimated living today 4909,000
Median age today 2923
Peak year 19782003
Best rank 2,375th boys634th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,571st
First recorded 19691970
Girls / boys 0 / 508152 / 9,123

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 Keokis alive today are over 29; half the Keons are over 23. That is 6 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: Keoki and Keon.