Keyana vs Keyona
American parents have registered 3,842 Keyanas since 1880, against 2,918 Keyonas. Keyana is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Keyana Keyona
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 46 years and Keyona for 8 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.
Side by side
| Keyana | Keyona | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,842 | 2,918 |
| Most in one year | 167 | 140 |
| Babies in 2025 | 20 | 11 |
| Estimated living today | 3,800 | 2,900 |
| Median age today | 28 | 30 |
| Peak year | 1994 | 1994 |
| Best rank | 1,077th girls | 1,236th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,917th | 8,860th |
| First recorded | 1972 | 1972 |
| Girls / boys | 3,842 / 0 | 2,918 / 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 Keyonas alive today are over 30; half the Keyanas are over 28. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Keyana Florida (3.1×), Georgia (2.6×), North Carolina (2.2×)
- Keyona the District of Columbia (6.7×), Maryland (6.7×), Virginia (3.2×)
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: Keyana and Keyona.