Kealii

#10,199 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Kealii has been given to 284 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #10,199 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Kealii, 2025

1 in 474,000

Kealii over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Kealii?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,199
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kealii sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kealii. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kealiis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kealii was born before 2005 — so the typical Kealii is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
284
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Choose a decade

2000s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Kealii rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−768
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,915
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,033
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 1996 (14)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,996
1980

Spellings of Kealii

Kealii is not the most common spelling — Khalil is, with 57.4% against Kealii's 0.65%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kealii is used

Across 1910–2025, Kealii was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 4,545 boys, against 1 in 4,459 across all states with data.

2222 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 4,545

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kealii has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kealii around the world

Where Kealii ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2019–2019
    #6,139
    in 2019

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Kealii by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,199
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,915
Best rank ever
#3,996
1980
Peak year
1996
14 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
284
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Kealii

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Kealii

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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