Keawe

#7,952 in 2025Boys' name

The + strand, twisted string

Keawe has been given to 153 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #7,952 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Keawe, 2025

1 in 332,000

Keawe over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keawe: meaning, origin, and history

The + strand, twisted string

Hawaiian

What Keawe means

Keawe means “the + strand, twisted string”, associated with ke and awe.

Origin, language, and formation

Keawe is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Keawe is pronounced /keˈa.we/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 153 boys were recorded with the name Keawe between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2023; its best national rank was #7,102 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,260 in 2020 to #7,952 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Keawe?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 171,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #7,952; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Keawe 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keawe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keawes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keawe was born before 2009 — so the typical Keawe is around 16 today.

Median birth year: 2009; About 16 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 153; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Keawe 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: +3,726; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −692; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 83.3%; Peak was 2023 (12)
Years since peak: 2; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,102; 2023

Spellings of Keawe

Keawe is not the most common spelling — Kade is, with 27.7% against Keawe's 0.18%.

Kade27.7%23,294
Kane23.2%19,521
Keanu10.3%8,695
Kale8.8%7,379
Kase5.8%4,842
Kwame4.7%3,955
Kace3.8%3,188
Deane3.3%2,758

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 Keawe is used

Across 1910–2025, Keawe was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 818,137 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 33,333
2California1 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. Keawe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keawe by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #7,952
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 692
Best rank ever: #7,102; 2023
Peak year: 2023; 12 that year
First recorded: 1994
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 153
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Keawe

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

Keahi Keano Keatyn Kealii Kealan Keath Keala Keari Keats Keaun Keanon Keair Keanen Keaston Keaire Keab Keane Keani Keante Keagon Keaka Keaden Keary Kean

Sibling names for Keawe

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Rhianna Adelle Leonor Anabel Hayleigh Jaiden

For a brother

Aaden Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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