Kekoa
Kekoa was given to 61 boys in 2025, #2,296 among boys’ names; 2,075 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Kekoa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kekoa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kekoa mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Kekoa is “a male or (formerly) female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the senses “the” (ke) and “warrior; koa tree” (koa).
ke (“the”) + koa (“warrior; koa tree”). Also a short form of compound names beginning with Kekoa-.
/keˈko.a/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kekoa?
#2,296 among boys’ names, 2025
Kekoa fell from #2,029 in 2015 to #2,296 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 37.0 to 35.7 per million.
75 babies in 2017, the peak
Kekoa peaked in 2017, when 75 boys were given it, #1,929 among boys’ names. The 61 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,296 | 35.7 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,580 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,161 | 39.2 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,108 | 40.7 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,339 | 33.7 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,335 | 33.6 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,198 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 50 | #2,560 | 27.5 |
| 2017 | 75 | #1,929 | 40.5 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,103 | 35.3 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,029 | 37.0 |
| 2014 | 56 | #2,329 | 29.2 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,240 | 30.7 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,279 | 30.0 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,136 | 32.6 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,135 | 32.8 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,083 | 33.3 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,079 | 32.8 |
| 2007 | 59 | #2,247 | 28.4 |
| 2006 | 49 | #2,493 | 23.8 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,253 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,265 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,163 | 25.8 |
| 2002 | 46 | #2,272 | 23.7 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,095 | 25.7 |
| 2000 | 43 | #2,273 | 21.9 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,433 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,421 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,646 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,788 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 36 | #2,232 | 18.9 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,725 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,923 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 38 | #2,061 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,498 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,824 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,509 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,051 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,364 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,949 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,516 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,886 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,013 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,593 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,746 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,734 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,636 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,994 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,117 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,660 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,795 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,618 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,371 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kekoa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,075 Americans recorded as Kekoa, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 61 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kekoa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kekoa, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,075 Americans ever recorded as Kekoa. The median Kekoa alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,541 people named Kekoa (49 women and girls, 1,492 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,693 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 83 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 318 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 829 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 803 |
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).
Where are babies named Kekoa born?
The states with the most babies named Kekoa are California, Hawaii and Washington, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Hawaii and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,176 | 1.6× |
| Hawaii | 9 | #117 | 85.0× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,076 | 2.0× |
Where Kekoa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kekoa is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1972 it was given 85.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kekoa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,515 babies since 1880, Kekoa is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 76 babies (80%), again the most given.
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 Kekoa
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 Kekoa and names like it
- Compare Kekoa and KeoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKekoa peaked in 2017.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kekoa since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Kekoa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Kekoa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kekoa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.