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Keyon vs Keyri

American parents have registered 6,020 Keyons since 1880, against 632 Keyris. Keyon is still ahead, with 59 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keyon against Keyri, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keyon Keyri

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

Keyon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Keyon had 76 and Keyri had 26.

Side by side

  Keyon Keyri
Total US births 6,020632
Most in one year 24938
Babies in 2025 5914
Estimated living today 5,900630
Median age today 2115
Peak year 20022007
Best rank 711th boys4,050th girls
Rank in 2025 2,332nd7,491st
First recorded 19721991
Girls / boys 101 / 5,919632 / 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 Keyons alive today are over 21; half the Keyris are over 15. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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