Keena
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keena has been given to 2,336 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1972, with 153 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.
Babies named Keena, 2024
1 in 371,000
Keena 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Keena over time
In 2024, Keena went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Keena?
Keena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 371,000
- 9 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 180,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 257,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keena sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keena was born before 1981 — so the typical Keena is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 29.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,195
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (642).
Is Keena 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- 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
- 0%
- Peak was 1972 (153)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.5% average annual change
Spellings of Keena
Keena is not the most common spelling — Edna is, with 17.3% against Keena's 0.13%.
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 Keena is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Keena was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 294,477 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in 100,000
- 2Michigan1 in 100,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Georgia1 in —
- 7Indiana1 in —
- 8Louisiana1 in —
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. Keena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Keena is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Keena was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 691,534 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 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. Keena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keena around the world
Where Keena 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.
- Canada1993–2015#3,185in 2015
- South Australia1956–1956#540in 1956
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Keena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Keena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Keena
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Keena, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Keena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.