Keaka
Keaka was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 51 Americans have been recorded with it between 2000 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keaka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keaka mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Keaka is “a male or female given name from Hawaiian or English, also used as the Hawaiian form of the English Jack” Its etymology gives the senses “the” (ke) and “shadow, reflection” (aka).
ke (“the”) + aka (“shadow, reflection”); also shortened from compound given names beginning thus.
/keˈa.ka/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keaka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,280, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
7 babies in 2006, the peak
Keaka peaked in 2006, when 7 boys were given it, #10,136 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #13,280 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,241 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,442 | 3.1 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,363 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,493 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,486 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,136 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,412 | 2.5 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,317 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keaka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keaka has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keaka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keaka, and how old are they?
An estimated 50 Americans named Keaka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,077 babies since 1880, Keaka is the fifth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 75 babies recorded by SSA was a Keaka (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Keaka
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 Keaka and names like it
- Compare Keaka and KekoaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeaka peaked in 2006.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keaka since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Keaka: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Keaka.
- Names starting with KMost given first.