Keia
Keia was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 597 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,222, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1993, the peak
Keia peaked in 1993, when 33 girls were given it, #3,375 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,222 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,436 | 2.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,734 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,657 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,438 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,963 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,319 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,645 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,483 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,602 | 12.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 25 | #4,174 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,375 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,605 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,083 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,393 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,969 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,447 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,948 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,070 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,915 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,597 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,484 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,427 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,484 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,261 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,196 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,156 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,037 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,735 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,916 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,773 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,467 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,786 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,281 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,355 | 7.4 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,898 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,270 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keia, and how old are they?
An estimated 575 Americans named Keia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 33 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 605 people named Keia (596 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 581 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 7,875 babies since 1880, Keia is the fifth most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 38 babies recorded by SSA was a Keia (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 Keia
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 Keia and names like it
- Compare Keia and KeciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKeia peaked in 1993.
- Maryland’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keia since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Keia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Keia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.