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Keoki vs Keonte

American parents have registered 1,578 Keontes since 1880, against 508 Keokis. Keonte is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keoki against Keonte, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keoki Keonte

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, Keonte for 41 years and Keoki for 14 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Keoki Keonte
Total US births 5081,578
Most in one year 1992
Babies in 2025 under 514
Estimated living today 4901,500
Median age today 2924
Peak year 19782000
Best rank 2,375th boys1,370th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked6,143rd
First recorded 19691977
Girls / boys 0 / 50855 / 1,523

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 Keokis alive today are over 29; half the Keontes are over 24. That is 5 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: Keoki and Keonte.