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Keyonna vs Keyra

American parents have registered 3,581 Keyonnas since 1880, against 981 Keyras. Keyonna is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keyonna Keyra

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, Keyonna for 43 years and Keyra for 11 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Keyonna Keyra
Total US births 3,581981
Most in one year 15562
Babies in 2025 1313
Estimated living today 3,500970
Median age today 2617
Peak year 19952007
Best rank 1,131st girls2,890th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885th7,885th
First recorded 19731972
Girls / boys 3,581 / 0981 / 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 Keyras 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.

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