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Keyana vs Keylin

American parents have registered 3,842 Keyanas since 1880, against 1,495 Keylins. But in 2025 it was Keylin that was commoner, 54 babies to 20.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keyana against Keylin, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keyana Keylin

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 54 years in which either name was published, Keyana for 39 years and Keylin for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Keyana Keylin
Total US births 3,8421,495
Most in one year 16788
Babies in 2025 2054
Estimated living today 3,8001,500
Median age today 2811
Peak year 19942022
Best rank 1,077th girls2,253rd girls
Rank in 2025 5,917th3,028th
First recorded 19721992
Girls / boys 3,842 / 01,180 / 315

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 Keyanas alive today are over 28; half the Keylins are over 11. 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: Keyana and Keylin.