Keona
Keona was given to 50 girls in 2025, #3,188 among girls’ names; 3,365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,300 Americans named Keona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keona mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Keona is “a male or (sometimes) female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the senses “the” (ke) and “attractive” (ona).
ke (“the”) + ona (“attractive”). Also a short form of compound given names beginning thus.
/keˈo.na/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keona?
#3,188 among girls’ names, 2025
Keona rose from #4,188 in 2015 to #3,188 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.6 to 31.1 per million.
143 babies in 2004, the peak
Keona peaked in 2004, when 143 babies were given it (135 girls, #1,491 among girls’ names). The 50 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,188 | 31.1 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,709 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,062 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,844 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,834 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,099 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,715 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,964 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,749 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,305 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,188 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,881 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,816 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,681 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,809 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,540 | 18.0 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,437 | 26.1 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,734 | 35.4 |
| 2007 | 81 | #2,359 | 42.1 |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,058 | 50.5 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,042 | 49.8 |
| 2004 | 135 | #1,491 | 73.5 |
| 2003 | 104 | #1,807 | 56.9 |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,775 | 56.8 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,876 | 51.6 |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,680 | 57.8 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,386 | 35.0 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,944 | 44.1 |
| 1997 | 83 | #1,807 | 47.7 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,812 | 46.2 |
| 1995 | 116 | #1,410 | 66.0 |
| 1994 | 102 | #1,524 | 57.1 |
| 1993 | 100 | #1,557 | 55.3 |
| 1992 | 128 | #1,316 | 69.4 |
| 1991 | 114 | #1,409 | 60.8 |
| 1990 | 89 | #1,655 | 46.9 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,673 | 44.5 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,918 | 35.9 |
| 1987 | 77 | #1,613 | 44.3 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,793 | 37.3 |
| 1985 | 74 | #1,610 | 43.0 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,669 | 39.2 |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,760 | 36.5 |
| 1982 | 84 | #1,442 | 49.6 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,687 | 40.8 |
| 1980 | 66 | #1,714 | 39.8 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,888 | 34.9 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,405 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,742 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,875 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,639 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,233 | 24.5 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,541 | 12.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,365 Americans recorded as Keona, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 50 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Keona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keona, and how old are they?
3,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,365 Americans ever recorded as Keona. The median Keona alive today is 29 years old; half are between 21 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 2,646 people named Keona (2,549 women and girls, 97 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 274 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,330 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 378 |
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 Keona born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,641 | 0.5× |
Where Keona is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keona is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1973 it was given 2.6 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 girls’ 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 Keona 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 68,906 babies since 1880, Keona is the seventh most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 722 babies (6.9%), the fourth 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 Keona
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 Keona and names like it
- Compare Keona and KenyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeona peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keona since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Keona: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Keona.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Keona alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.