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Keano

#12,988 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Keanu

Keano has been given to 338 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #12,988 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Keano, 2025

1 in 663,000

Keano over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keano: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Keanu

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keano means

Keano is a variant of Keanu.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Keano is used in Dutch (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /keː.ˈaː.noː/ for Keano.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Keano → Keanu. The family’s meaning is “the cool breeze”, recorded in the naming reference for Keanu.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Keanu.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 338 boys were recorded with the name Keano between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1997; its best national rank was #3,210 in 1997.

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 Keano?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,988
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keano 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keanos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keano was born before 2003 — so the typical Keano is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
338
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Choose a decade

2000s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Keano 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
−4,317
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
21.7%
Peak was 1997 (23)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,210
1997

Spellings of Keano

Keano is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 44.9% against Keano's 0.04%.

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 Keano is used

Across 1910–2025, Keano was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,584,791 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Keano has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keano around the world

Where Keano 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–1995
    #1,710
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1997–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Keano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,988
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,210
1997
Peak year
1997
23 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
338
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Keano

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

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Sibling names for Keano

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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