Kekoa — #2607 US boys' name
1,991 babies named Kekoa in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 82% of names given to boys today.
31% of everyone ever named Kekoa was born in this single decade.
75 babies were named Kekoa in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Kekoa
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,991 babies named Kekoa between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kekoa currently holds the #2607 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 75 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Kekoa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 623 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kekoa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 700 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Kekoa in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Kekoa 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 1,991 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.
Kekoa at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Kekoa popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1972
- Peak year (2017)
- 75
- Annual births at peak — across 53 years of records
Currently ranks #2607 among boys.
1,991 total births across 53 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 75 births in a single year.
Kekoa popularity over time — girls
22 total births recorded since 2000 (Kekoa as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Kekoa accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Kekoa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 623 births that decade — 31% of Kekoa's all-time total
Kekoa decade highlights
- Peak decade 623 births
- Runner-up 535 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Kekoa's strongest decade
623 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Kekoa by state
Where Kekoa concentrates geographically — total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Hawaii | | 700 | 35.2% |
| #2 | California | | 399 | 20.0% |
| #3 | Washington | | 84 | 4.2% |
| #4 | Texas | | 35 | 1.8% |
| #5 | Nevada | | 33 | 1.7% |
| #6 | Utah | | 22 | 1.1% |
| #7 | Oregon | | 6 | 0.3% |
| #8 | Arizona | | 5 | 0.3% |
700 of 1,991 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Hawaii 35.2% of nationwide
- California 20.0% of nationwide
- Washington 4.2% of nationwide
- Texas 1.8% of nationwide
- Nevada 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Hawaii accounts for 35.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 1972–2024 (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.