Keia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keia has been given to 597 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1993, with 33 recorded.
Babies named Keia, 2012
1 in 732,000
Keia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Keia?
Keia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,590 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,051 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keia was born before 1985 — so the typical Keia is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 31.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 41.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 597
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 31.3% of all recorded uses (187).
Is Keia 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 1993 (33)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.4% average annual change
Spellings of Keia
Keia is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 11.1% against Keia's 0.02%.
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 Keia is used
Across 1910–2025, Keia was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 240,657 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 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. Keia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keia around the world
Where Keia 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 & Wales2003–2011#5,785in 2011
- South Australia2001–2001#711in 2001
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.
Keia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.