Keahi
Keahi was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,279 among boys’ names; 359 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keahi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keahi mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Keahi is “a male or female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the senses “the” (ke) and “fire” (ahi).
ke (“the”) + ahi (“fire”); also a short form of compound given names beginning thus.
/keˈa.hi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keahi?
#6,279 among boys’ names, 2025
Keahi fell from #5,874 in 2015 to #6,279 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 8.2 per million.
21 babies in 2009, the peak
Keahi peaked in 2009, when 21 babies were given it (14 boys, #6,275 among boys’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,279 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,330 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,791 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,661 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,276 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,805 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,962 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,234 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,408 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,431 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #5,874 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,149 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,210 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,304 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,822 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,893 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,275 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,926 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,105 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,669 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,411 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,334 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,173 | 3.5 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,678 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,069 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,368 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,347 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,286 | 3.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,783 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keahi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 359 Americans recorded as Keahi, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Keahi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keahi, and how old are they?
An estimated 355 Americans named Keahi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 406 people named Keahi (107 women and girls, 299 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 275 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Keahi born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 147 | not ranked | 104.8× |
| California | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Keahi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keahi is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1981 it was given 104.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Keahi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,839 babies since 1880, Keahi is the third most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 28 babies (50%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keahi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Keahi and names like it
- Compare Keahi and KeiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeahi peaked in 2009.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keahi since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Keahi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Keahi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Keahi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.