Keontae
Keontae was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,901 among boys’ names; 1,232 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Keontae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keontae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keontae?
#3,901 among boys’ names, 2025
Keontae rose from #4,629 in 2015 to #3,901 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.0 to 16.4 per million.
91 babies in 2000, the peak
Keontae peaked in 2000, when 91 babies were given it (85 boys, #1,452 among boys’ names). The 28 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,901 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,500 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,067 | 15.8 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,507 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,235 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,766 | 16.2 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,713 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,541 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,203 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,542 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,629 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,194 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,536 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,607 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,478 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,530 | 25.5 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,684 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,656 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 56 | #2,323 | 27.0 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,137 | 29.7 |
| 2005 | 30 | #3,348 | 15.0 |
| 2004 | 48 | #2,359 | 24.2 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,488 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 60 | #1,877 | 30.9 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,097 | 25.7 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,452 | 43.3 |
| 1999 | 56 | #1,789 | 29.2 |
| 1998 | 50 | #1,944 | 26.2 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,714 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,567 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,650 | 14.7 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,588 | 15.0 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,089 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,061 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,125 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,821 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,934 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,584 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keontae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,232 Americans recorded as Keontae, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 28 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 Keontae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keontae, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,232 Americans ever recorded as Keontae. The median Keontae alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 805 people named Keontae (48 women and girls, 757 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,078 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 166 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 765 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 280 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,777 babies since 1880, Keontae is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 81 babies (35%), the 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 Keontae
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 Keontae and names like it
- Compare Keontae and KeonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeontae peaked in 2000.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keontae since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Keontae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keontae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.