Keani — #12451 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Keani

The Social Security Administration has registered 509 babies named Keani between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Keani currently holds the #12451 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 31 babies received it in a single year. Keani is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 54 additional births since 2005.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Keani performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 161 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Keani shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 100 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Keani in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Keani in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 509 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.