Keanu vs Keara

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Keanu Keara

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, Keara for 30 years and Keanu for 25 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

• 1969–1993 Keara ahead
• 1994–1997 Keanu ahead
• 1998–2000 Keara ahead
• 2001–2002 Keanu ahead
• 2003 Keara ahead
• 2004 Keanu ahead
• 2005–2007 Keara ahead
• 2008–2025 Keanu ahead

Side by side

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 Kearas alive today are over 25; half the Keanus are over 11. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Keanu Hawaii (32.5×), Nevada (5.8×), Arizona (3.5×)
• Keara Florida (2.1×), Virginia (1.7×), New York (1.5×)

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.

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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