Girls' name · since 1957
Keta
128 babies named Keta in U.S. Social Security records since 1957, with the highest year being 1977. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 128
- total births
- 1957–1984
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 56%
- born in that decade
128 girls have been named Keta since 1957, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Keta has 128 recorded births among girls since 1957, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1957 to 1984.
- 128 total births
- 1957–1984 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 56% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Keta's 128 recorded births place it above 66% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Keta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Keta splits its recorded history at 1974: 57% of all births land in the more recent half, 43% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1964 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1977 peak of 15 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Keta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1957–1984
- Peak year (1977)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Keta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Keta's strongest decade.
72 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 56% of all-time use.
Keta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 15
1950s
15 births
- 1960s 24
1960s
24 births
- 1970s
1970s
72 births
- 1980s 17
1980s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 72 births (56% of all-time use).
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- Keta's decade-level peak was the 1970s (72 total births); usage has since declined to 17 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1957–1984 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Keta: Baby Name Since 1957 - 128 Births, Peak 1977." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/keta. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Keta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.