Keita
Keita is a boy's name that peaked in 1981, when it was the 1,726th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 650 Keitas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Keita boys named Keita
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 680
- Estimated living today
- 650
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1981
- Best rank
- 1,726th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1967
- Girls / boys
- 189 / 491
How old the living Keitas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 680 babies given the name since 1967, about 650 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Keitas
- Keita Suzuki (born 1981)Japanese association football player
- Keita Balde (born 1995)Senegalese and Spanish professional footballer y familia de media españa
- Keita Endo (born 1997)Japanese footballer
- Keita Sugimoto (born 1982)Japanese association football player
- Keita Isozaki (born 1980)Japanese association football player
- Keita Kanemoto (born 1977)Japanese association football player
- Keita Yamashita (born 1996)Japanese association football player
- Keita Fujimura (born 1993)Japanese association football player
People named Keita with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Keita is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Keita is most concentrated in California (6.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1981
The most popular boys’ names the year Keita peaked:
Keita elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Keita | 139 | 1,342nd |
| France boys | Keita +1 spelling | 40 | 4,773rd |
| Ireland girls | Keita | 13 | 758th |
| England and Wales boys | Keita | 10 | 3,937th |
| France girls | Keita | 10 | 4,099th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Keita among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Keita | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Keita against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.