Keva
Keva was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,258 Americans have been recorded with it between 1954 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Keva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 28 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keva?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,502, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1974, the peak
Keva peaked in 1974, when 45 girls were given it, #1,927 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,502 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,968 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,538 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,271 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,070 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,495 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,664 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,549 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,203 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,219 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,551 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,810 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,764 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,229 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,134 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,964 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,222 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,561 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,945 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,170 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,578 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,870 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,632 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,536 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,371 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,040 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,281 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,750 | 9.8 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,565 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,452 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,324 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,769 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,528 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,665 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,156 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,451 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,915 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,953 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 35 | #2,729 | 20.3 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,373 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,020 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 31 | #2,921 | 18.3 |
| 1981 | 36 | #2,589 | 21.6 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,722 | 20.5 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,504 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,598 | 21.5 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,636 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,317 | 24.6 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,487 | 21.9 |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,927 | 30.7 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,041 | 27.4 |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,006 | 26.3 |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,126 | 23.4 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,550 | 16.6 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,734 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,747 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,446 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,201 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,784 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,730 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,533 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,514 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,712 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,019 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,893 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,344 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,578 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,653 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,446 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keva, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,258 Americans ever recorded as Keva. The median Keva alive today is 44 years old; half are between 28 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,145 people named Keva (1,109 women and girls, 36 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,168 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 87 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 456 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 332 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 161 |
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,235 babies since 1880, Keva is the most given (56% of them).
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 Keva
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 Keva and names like it
- Compare Keva and KeevaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKeva peaked in 1974.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keva since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Keva.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Keva alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.