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Keylan vs Keyonna

American parents have registered 3,581 Keyonnas since 1880, against 1,073 Keylans. But in 2025 it was Keylan that was commoner, 30 babies to 13.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keylan 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 53 years in which either name was published, Keyonna for 44 years and Keylan for 9 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Keylan Keyonna
Total US births 1,0733,581
Most in one year 55155
Babies in 2025 3013
Estimated living today 1,1003,500
Median age today 1526
Peak year 20061995
Best rank 2,477th boys1,131st girls
Rank in 2025 3,658th7,885th
First recorded 19891973
Girls / boys 55 / 1,0183,581 / 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 Keyonnas alive today are over 26; half the Keylans are over 15. That is 11 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: Keylan and Keyonna.