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Keyana vs Keyara

American parents have registered 3,842 Keyanas since 1880, against 1,789 Keyaras. Keyana is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Keyana against Keyara, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Keyana Keyara

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 54 years in which either name was published, Keyana for 48 years and Keyara for 6 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Keyana Keyara
Total US births 3,8421,789
Most in one year 167107
Babies in 2025 208
Estimated living today 3,8001,800
Median age today 2822
Peak year 19942001
Best rank 1,077th girls1,686th girls
Rank in 2025 5,917th10,917th
First recorded 19721982
Girls / boys 3,842 / 01,789 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Keyanas alive today are over 28; half the Keyaras are over 22. That is 6 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Keyana Keyara
England and Wales 2621

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: Keyana and Keyara.