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Keyanna vs Keyshaun

American parents have registered 3,464 Keyannas since 1880, against 709 Keyshauns. Keyanna is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Keyanna Keyshaun

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

Keyanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Keyanna had 91 and Keyshaun had 45.

Side by side

  Keyanna Keyshaun
Total US births 3,464709
Most in one year 16754
Babies in 2025 176
Estimated living today 3,400700
Median age today 2621
Peak year 19952000
Best rank 1,067th girls1,924th boys
Rank in 2025 6,546th10,695th
First recorded 19751996
Girls / boys 3,464 / 00 / 709

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 Keyannas alive today are over 26; half the Keyshauns are over 21. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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