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Keoki vs Keoni

American parents have registered 3,576 Keonis since 1880, against 508 Keokis. Keoni is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keoki against Keoni, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keoki Keoni

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 58 years in which either name was published, Keoni for 56 years and Keoki for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Keoki Keoni
Total US births 5083,576
Most in one year 19125
Babies in 2025 under 585
Estimated living today 4903,500
Median age today 2917
Peak year 19782013
Best rank 2,375th boys1,459th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,056th
First recorded 19691968
Girls / boys 0 / 508372 / 3,204

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 Keonis are over 17. That is 12 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 Keoni.