Keola
Keola was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,373 among boys’ names; 612 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keola mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Keola is “a male or (less commonly today) female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the senses “the” (ke) and “life; healthy one” (ola).
ke (“the”) + ola (“life; healthy one”). Also a short form of compound given names beginning thus.
/keˈo.la/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keola?
#11,373 among boys’ names, 2025
Keola fell from #7,784 in 2015 to #11,373 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 3.5 per million.
27 babies in 1981, the peak
Keola peaked in 1981, when 27 boys were given it, #2,019 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,373 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,054 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,371 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,446 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,481 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,141 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,337 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,905 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,518 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,239 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,784 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,480 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,227 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,836 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,805 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,522 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,470 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,602 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,703 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,742 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,434 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,778 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,413 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,269 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,720 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,447 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,896 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,229 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,967 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,825 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,718 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,386 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,557 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,077 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,737 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,287 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,939 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,055 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,549 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,767 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,466 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,077 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,331 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,597 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 27 | #2,019 | 15.1 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,895 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,430 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,738 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,608 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,171 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,002 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,167 | 12.7 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,297 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 612 Americans recorded as Keola, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Keola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keola, and how old are they?
An estimated 587 Americans named Keola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 18 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 607 people named Keola (122 women and girls, 485 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 550 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Keola born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 342 | not ranked | 130.6× |
| California | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Keola is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keola is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1973 it was given 130.6 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 Keola 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 776 babies since 1880, Keola is the most given (79% of them).
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 Keola
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 Keola and names like it
- Compare Keola and KeleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKeola peaked in 1981.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keola since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Keola: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Keola.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keola alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.