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Keita

#12,997 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Possibly each of the two, through Kate

Keita has been given to 680 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #12,997 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 33 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% boys, 28% girls all-time.

Babies named Keita, 2025

1 in 663,000

Keita over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Keita over time

In 2025, Keita went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19672025

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.

Keita: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly each of the two, through Kate

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keita means

Keita belongs to the name family reached through Keita → Kate → Katherine → Catherine. Its meaning is “each of the two”.

Origin, language, and formation

Keita is used in Latvian.

Keita comes through English Kate.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kate, Katherine and Catherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 491 boys were recorded with the name Keita between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,746 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,125 in 2020 to #12,997 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,625 in 2015 to #12,997 in 2025.

In the United States, 189 girls were recorded with the name Keita between 1967 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1975; its best national rank was #4,022 in 1975.

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 Keita?

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
#12,997
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keita 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 Keita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keita was born before 1995 — so the typical Keita is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
20.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
491
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 20.4% of all recorded uses (100).

Is Keita 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
−2,583
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+128
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,372
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.31×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.2%
Peak was 1981 (33)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,746
1981

Spellings of Keita

Keita is not the most common spelling — Keith is, with 81.6% against Keita's 0.09%.

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 Keita is used

Across 1910–2025, Keita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,133,527 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Keita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keita around the world

Where Keita 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
    2014–2019
    #3,937
    in 2019
  • France
    1993–2025
    #5,405
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2007–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Keita by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,997
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 128
Best rank ever
#1,746
1981
Peak year
1981
33 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
491
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,022
1975
Peak year
1975
16 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
189
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keita

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

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Sibling names for Keita

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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