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Keona vs Keonte

American parents have registered 3,365 Keonas since 1880, against 1,578 Keontes. Keona is still ahead, with 50 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keona Keonte

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 53 years in which either name was published, Keona for 50 years and Keonte for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Keona Keonte
Total US births 3,3651,578
Most in one year 14392
Babies in 2025 5014
Estimated living today 3,3001,500
Median age today 2824
Peak year 20042000
Best rank 1,488th girls1,370th boys
Rank in 2025 3,167th6,143rd
First recorded 19731977
Girls / boys 3,285 / 8055 / 1,523

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 Keonas alive today are over 28; half the Keontes are over 24. That is 4 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: Keona and Keonte.