Keonta — boys' name
433 babies named Keonta in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Keonta was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Keonta in 1996 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Keonta
The Social Security Administration has registered 433 babies named Keonta between 1978 and 2022, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Keonta currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Keonta is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 64 additional births since 1979.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Keonta performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 177 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Keonta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Keonta in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Keonta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 433 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Keonta at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Keonta popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1978
- Peak year (1996)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 45 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
433 total births across 45 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1996 with 27 births in a single year.
Keonta popularity over time — girls
64 total births recorded since 1979 (Keonta as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Keonta accounts for 13% of total recorded use across both genders.
Keonta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 177 births that decade — 41% of Keonta's all-time total
Keonta decade highlights
- Peak decade 177 births
- Runner-up 152 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Keonta's strongest decade
177 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
Keonta by state
Where Keonta concentrates geographically — total births since 1978
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Alabama | | 5 | 1.2% |
5 of 433 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Alabama 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Alabama accounts for 1.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1978–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.