Keanah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keanah has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Keanah, 2010
1 in 616,000
Keanah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Keanah?
Keanah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 616,000
- 6 of 3,695,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 296,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,971 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keanah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keanah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keanahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keanah was born before 2006 — so the typical Keanah is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 86.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 43
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 86.0% of all recorded uses (37).
Is Keanah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2006 (9)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.5% average annual change
Spellings of Keanah
Keanah is not the most common spelling — Kiana is, with 19.7% against Keanah's 0.03%.
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.
Keanah around the world
Where Keanah 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 & Wales2002–2002#4,137in 2002
- South Australia1995–1995#712in 1995
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Keanah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keanah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keanah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.