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Keana

#6,975 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Keana has been given to 2,738 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #6,975 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 177 recorded.

Babies named Keana, 2025

1 in 207,000

Keana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keana: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keana means

Keana is a given name.

The naming story behind Keana

Wikidata records Keana as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98669296, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,738 girls were recorded with the name Keana between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 177 in 1995; its best national rank was #1,030 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,970 in 2020 to #6,975 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,573 in 2015 to #6,975 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Keana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,975
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keana was born before 1998 — so the typical Keana is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,738
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (1,190).

Is Keana 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
+440
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,005
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,402
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.0%
Peak was 1995 (177)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,030
1995

Spellings of Keana

Keana is not the most common spelling — Jean is, with 13.8% against Keana's 0.08%.

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 Keana is used

Across 1910–2025, Keana was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 106,354 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Keana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keana around the world

Where Keana 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2019
    #7,788
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1994–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1993–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Keana

People whose public names include Keana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Keana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,975
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,005
Best rank ever
#1,030
1995
Peak year
1995
177 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,738
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Keana

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

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Names with a curve like Keana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Keana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Keana

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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