Keo
Keo was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,002 among boys’ names; 305 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keo?
#6,002 among boys’ names, 2025
Keo rose from #9,183 in 2015 to #6,002 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 8.8 per million.
19 babies in 2023, the peak
Keo peaked in 2023, when 19 boys were given it, #5,160 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,002 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,651 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,160 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,328 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,512 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,267 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,610 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,515 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,196 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,500 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,183 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,159 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,318 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,858 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,250 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,480 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,872 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,702 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,202 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,826 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,354 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,269 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,789 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,713 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,820 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,372 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,158 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,922 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,339 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,086 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,716 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,918 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,121 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,802 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keo, and how old are they?
An estimated 299 Americans named Keo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,172 people named Keo (537 women and girls, 635 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 219 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Keo rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,317 babies since 1880, Keo is the fifth most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 90 babies (17%), the second most given that year.
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 Keo
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 Keo and names like it
- Compare Keo and KekoaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKeo peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keo since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Keo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Keo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.