Girls' name · since 1972
Keeya
Keeya has 85 recorded births since 1972 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1973 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 85
- total births
- 1972–2008
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 58%
- born in that decade
Keeya sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 85 recorded since 1972.
Keeya has 85 recorded births among girls since 1972, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1972 to 2008.
- 85 total births
- 1972–2008 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 58% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Keeya's 85 recorded births place it above 60% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
The state file records this name in 1 jurisdictions, led by Pennsylvania.
Keeya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Keeya's SSA record in two at 1979 and the more recent half accounts for 49% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 51%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1974, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1973 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Keeya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1972–2008
- Peak year (1973)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 2008.
85 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1973 with 11 births in a single year.
Keeya by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Keeya's strongest decade.
49 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Keeya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
49 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s 18
1990s
18 births
- 2000s 13
2000s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 49 births (58% of all-time use).
Keeya decade highlights
- Peak decade 49 births
- Runner-up 18 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
Keeya by state
Where Keeya concentrates geographically, total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 7 | 8.2% |
7 of 85 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 8.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 8.2% of all recorded births nationwide - a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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- Keeya's decade-level peak was the 1970s (49 total births); usage has since declined to 13 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
- Pennsylvania records the most Keeyas (7 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. Pennsylvania names
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1972–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Keeya: Baby Name Since 1972 - 85 Births, Peak 1973." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/keeya. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Keeya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.
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