Keontay
Keontay was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,218 among boys’ names; 375 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keontay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keontay?
#10,218 among boys’ names, 2025
Keontay fell from #7,785 in 2015 to #10,218 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.1 per million.
30 babies in 2000, the peak
Keontay peaked in 2000, when 30 boys were given it, #2,950 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,218 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,449 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,581 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,630 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,143 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,218 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,262 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,488 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,785 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,234 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 13 | #6,451 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,532 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,806 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,261 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,038 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,643 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,902 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,958 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,435 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,190 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 26 | #3,486 | 13.2 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,569 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,042 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,950 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,897 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,649 | 10.5 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,379 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,491 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,964 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,689 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,558 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,900 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keontay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 375 Americans recorded as Keontay, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 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 Keontay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keontay, and how old are they?
An estimated 368 Americans named Keontay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 287 people named Keontay (27 women and girls, 260 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 340 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.
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 5,284 babies since 1880, Keontay is the sixth most given (7.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 64 babies (11%), the fifth 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 Keontay
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 Keontay and names like it
- Compare Keontay and KeonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeontay peaked in 2000.
- Maryland’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keontay since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Keontay.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keontay alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.