Keena
Keena was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 2,336 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,200 Americans named Keena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 34 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,684, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
153 babies in 1972, the peak
Keena peaked in 1972, when 153 girls were given it, #851 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #10,684 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,294 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,457 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,854 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,812 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,909 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,475 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,542 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,477 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,407 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #9,254 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,629 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,406 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,435 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,518 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,884 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,687 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,201 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,406 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,677 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,851 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,051 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,007 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,698 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,640 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,661 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,888 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,299 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,171 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,530 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,836 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,122 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,300 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,677 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,764 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,831 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,668 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,290 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,940 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 105 | #1,281 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,668 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,938 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,168 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,178 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,229 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,258 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 48 | #2,000 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,726 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,948 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 67 | #1,519 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 64 | #1,525 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 98 | #1,133 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 153 | #851 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,566 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,282 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,799 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,580 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,349 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,430 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,499 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,270 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,079 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,336 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,941 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,550 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,689 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,884 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,496 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,952 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,441 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,978 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,336 Americans recorded as Keena, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Keena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keena, and how old are they?
2,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,336 Americans ever recorded as Keena. The median Keena alive today is 43 years old; half are between 34 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 2,118 people named Keena (1,938 women and girls, 180 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,203 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 244 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 761 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 799 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 288 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 107 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 67,661 babies since 1880, Keena is the eighth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 709 babies recorded by SSA was a Keena (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 Keena
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 Keena and names like it
- Compare Keena and KenyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKeena peaked in 1972.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keena since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Keena.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Keena alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.