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Keonna vs Keontae

American parents have registered 1,925 Keonnas since 1880, against 1,232 Keontaes. But in 2025 it was Keontae that was commoner, 28 babies to 23.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keonna against Keontae, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keonna Keontae

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 52 years in which either name was published, Keonna for 32 years and Keontae for 20 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Keonna Keontae
Total US births 1,9251,232
Most in one year 9191
Babies in 2025 2328
Estimated living today 1,9001,200
Median age today 2820
Peak year 19952000
Best rank 1,626th girls1,448th boys
Rank in 2025 5,410th3,848th
First recorded 19731987
Girls / boys 1,925 / 027 / 1,205

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 Keonnas alive today are over 28; half the Keontaes are over 20. That is 8 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: Keonna and Keontae.