Keyontae
Keyontae was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,336 among boys’ names; 488 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keyontae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keyontae?
#9,336 among boys’ names, 2025
Keyontae fell from #9,184 in 2015 to #9,336 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 4.7 per million.
28 babies in 2008, the peak
Keyontae peaked in 2008, when 28 boys were given it, #3,786 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,336 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,057 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,080 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,666 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,668 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,578 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,945 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,179 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,269 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,496 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,184 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,314 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,453 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,319 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,108 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,449 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,878 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,786 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,729 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,606 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,734 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,781 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,935 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,405 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,568 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,702 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,245 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,040 | 6.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,040 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,967 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,702 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,181 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,826 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keyontae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 488 Americans recorded as Keyontae, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 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 Keyontae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keyontae, and how old are they?
An estimated 481 Americans named Keyontae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 342 people named Keyontae (41 women and girls, 301 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 407 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 5,214 babies since 1880, Keyontae is the fifth most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 74 babies (11%), the fourth 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 Keyontae
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 Keyontae and names like it
- Compare Keyontae and KeonteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeyontae peaked in 2008.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keyontae since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Keyontae.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keyontae alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.