Keyana vs Keyonna
American parents have registered 3,842 Keyanas since 1880, against 3,581 Keyonnas. Keyana is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Keyana Keyonna
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 35 years and Keyonna for 19 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1972–1983 Keyana ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1984–1987 Keyonna ahead
- 1988–2000 Keyana ahead
- 2008–2012 Keyonna ahead
- 2021–2025 Keyana ahead
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Keyana | Keyonna | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,842 | 3,581 |
| Most in one year | 167 | 155 |
| Babies in 2025 | 20 | 13 |
| Estimated living today | 3,800 | 3,500 |
| Median age today | 28 | 26 |
| Peak year | 1994 | 1995 |
| Best rank | 1,077th girls | 1,131st girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,917th | 7,885th |
| First recorded | 1972 | 1973 |
| Girls / boys | 3,842 / 0 | 3,581 / 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 Keyanas alive today are over 28; half the Keyonnas are over 26. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Keyana Florida (3.1×), Georgia (2.6×), North Carolina (2.2×)
- Keyonna Georgia (4.8×), Florida (3.5×), Maryland (2.9×)
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 Keyonna.