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Keanna vs Kearston

American parents have registered 3,638 Keannas since 1880, against 430 Kearstons. Keanna is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keanna Kearston

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 52 years in which either name was published, Keanna for 51 years and Kearston for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Keanna Kearston
Total US births 3,638430
Most in one year 20727
Babies in 2025 16under 5
Estimated living today 3,600420
Median age today 2728
Peak year 19952001
Best rank 911th girls5,174th girls
Rank in 2025 6,838thunranked
First recorded 19731978
Girls / boys 3,638 / 0424 / 6

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.

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