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Keana vs Keanna

American parents have registered 3,638 Keannas since 1880, against 2,738 Keanas. But in 2025 it was Keana that was commoner, 16 babies to 16.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keana against Keanna, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keana Keanna

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 55 years in which either name was published, Keanna for 44 years and Keana for 11 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Keana Keanna
Total US births 2,7383,638
Most in one year 177207
Babies in 2025 1616
Estimated living today 2,7003,600
Median age today 2727
Peak year 19951995
Best rank 1,031st girls911th girls
Rank in 2025 6,838th6,838th
First recorded 19701973
Girls / boys 2,738 / 03,638 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Keana Keanna
England and Wales 98196

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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