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Keoni vs Keosha

American parents have registered 3,576 Keonis since 1880, against 1,884 Keoshas. Keoni is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keoni Keosha

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 41 years and Keosha for 17 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Keoni Keosha
Total US births 3,5761,884
Most in one year 125126
Babies in 2025 85under 5
Estimated living today 3,5001,800
Median age today 1734
Peak year 20131992
Best rank 1,459th boys1,329th girls
Rank in 2025 2,056thunranked
First recorded 19681974
Girls / boys 372 / 3,2041,884 / 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 Keoshas alive today are over 34; half the Keonis are over 17. That is 17 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: Keoni and Keosha.