Keno
Keno was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,008 among boys’ names; 617 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keno by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keno?
#7,008 among boys’ names, 2025
Keno rose from #8,399 in 2015 to #7,008 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 7.0 per million.
22 babies in 1975, the peak
Keno peaked in 1975, when 22 boys were given it, #2,091 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,008 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,427 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,003 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,748 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,278 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,159 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,411 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,388 | 6.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,275 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,399 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #6,864 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,146 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,315 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,451 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,345 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,472 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,677 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,897 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,388 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,653 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,340 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,251 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,568 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,716 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,590 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,501 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,317 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,378 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,286 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,165 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,696 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,354 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,074 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,942 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,819 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,937 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,930 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,216 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,108 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,517 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,777 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,330 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,420 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,009 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,330 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,263 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,737 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,845 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,462 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 22 | #2,091 | 14.1 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,081 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,362 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,205 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,264 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,098 | 2.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,730 | 3.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,235 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,737 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,229 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keno a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keno has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keno: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keno, and how old are they?
An estimated 582 Americans named Keno and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 17 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 569 people named Keno (11 women and girls, 558 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 533 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 70,624 babies since 1880, Keno is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 1,093 babies (1.1%), again the sixth 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 Keno
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Rahman | 1,286 | |
| Hakim | 2,361 | |
| Athanasios | 1,284 | |
| Rico | 9,971 | |
| Panagiotis | 1,320 | |
| Dimitrios | 2,682 |
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 Keno and names like it
- Compare Keno and KennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKeno peaked in 1975.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keno since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Keno.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Keno alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.