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Keyli vs Keyonna

American parents have registered 3,581 Keyonnas since 1880, against 1,555 Keylis. But in 2025 it was Keyli that was commoner, 72 babies to 13.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keyli 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 38 years and Keyli for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Keyli Keyonna
Total US births 1,5553,581
Most in one year 95155
Babies in 2025 7213
Estimated living today 1,5003,500
Median age today 1126
Peak year 20091995
Best rank 2,119th girls1,131st girls
Rank in 2025 2,458th7,885th
First recorded 19941973
Girls / boys 1,555 / 03,581 / 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 Keylis are over 11. That is 15 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: Keyli and Keyonna.