Keone
Keone was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,217 among boys’ names; 610 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keone by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keone mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Keone is “a male or (sometimes) female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the senses “the” (ke) and “sand; homeland” (one).
ke (“the”) + one (“sand; homeland”). Also a short form of compound given names beginning thus.
/keˈo.ne/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keone?
#10,217 among boys’ names, 2025
Keone fell from #6,891 in 2015 to #10,217 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 4.1 per million.
21 babies in 1986, the peak
Keone peaked in 1986, when 21 boys were given it, #2,562 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,217 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,448 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,005 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,514 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,513 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,142 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,944 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,918 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,884 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,298 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,891 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,312 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,228 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,531 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,610 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,524 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,476 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,679 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,364 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,673 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,724 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,342 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,414 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,322 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,285 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,132 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,343 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,037 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,968 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,364 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,719 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,968 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,132 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,451 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,627 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,845 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,406 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,614 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,631 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,562 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 15 | #3,152 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,816 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,537 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,598 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,539 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,332 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,461 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,511 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,882 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,380 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,796 | 5.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,331 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,067 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,299 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,502 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,177 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keone a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keone has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keone: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keone, and how old are they?
An estimated 585 Americans named Keone and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 16 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 483 people named Keone (39 women and girls, 444 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 540 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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 Keone born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 102 | not ranked | 39.3× |
| California | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Keone is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keone is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1969 it was given 39.3 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 Keone 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 71,828 babies since 1880, Keone is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 715 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Keone
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 Keone and names like it
- Compare Keone and KennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKeone peaked in 1986.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keone since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Keone: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Keone.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Keone alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.