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Keyanna vs Keylee

American parents have registered 3,464 Keyannas since 1880, against 1,542 Keylees. Keyanna is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keyanna Keylee

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 51 years in which either name was published, Keyanna for 41 years and Keylee for 10 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Keyanna Keylee
Total US births 3,4641,542
Most in one year 167106
Babies in 2025 1715
Estimated living today 3,4001,500
Median age today 2617
Peak year 19952009
Best rank 1,067th girls1,956th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th7,133rd
First recorded 19751984
Girls / boys 3,464 / 01,542 / 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 Keyannas alive today are over 26; half the Keylees are over 17. That is 9 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Keyanna Keylee
England and Wales 5312
France 555

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Keyanna and Keylee.