Keante — #12841 US boys' name
213 babies named Keante in U.S. Social Security records since 1989, with the highest year being 1994. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 10% of names given to boys today.
58% of everyone ever named Keante was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Keante in 1994 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Keante
The Social Security Administration has registered 213 babies named Keante between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Keante currently holds the #12841 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Keante is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 13 additional births since 1977.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Keante performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Keante shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Keante in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Keante 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 213 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.
Keante at a glance
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Current rank
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Keante popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1989
- Peak year (1994)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 36 years of records
Currently ranks #12841 among boys.
213 total births across 36 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1994 with 20 births in a single year.
Keante popularity over time — girls
13 total births recorded since 1977 (Keante as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Keante accounts for 6% of total recorded use across both genders.
Keante by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 124 births that decade — 58% of Keante's all-time total
Keante decade highlights
- Peak decade 124 births
- Runner-up 72 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Keante's strongest decade
124 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
Keante by state
Where Keante concentrates geographically — total births since 1989
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 5 | 2.3% |
5 of 213 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 2.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 2.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1989–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.