Name Awesome

Keona

#3,188 in 2025Girls' name

The + attractive

Keona has been given to 3,365 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #3,188 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 135 recorded.

Babies named Keona, 2025

1 in 66,300

Keona over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keona: meaning, origin, and history

The + attractive

Hawaiian

What Keona means

Keona means “the + attractive”, associated with ke and ona.

Origin, language, and formation

Keona is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Keona is pronounced /keˈo.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,285 girls were recorded with the name Keona between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 135 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,316 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,099 in 2020 to #3,188 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,188 in 2015 to #3,188 in 2025.

In the United States, 80 boys were recorded with the name Keona between 2003 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2005; its best national rank was #4,938 in 2005.

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 Keona?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,188
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keona sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keona. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keonas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keona was born before 1996 — so the typical Keona is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,285
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (953).

Is Keona 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
+2,521
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,911
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,000
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
37.0%
Peak was 2004 (135)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,316
1992

Spellings of Keona

Keona is not the most common spelling — Edna is, with 19.0% against Keona's 0.21%.

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 Keona is used

Across 1910–2025, Keona was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 93,372 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 14,286
  2. 2Virginia1 in 33,333
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 50,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

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

Keona around the world

Where Keona 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
    2000–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #3,436
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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

Keona by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,188
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,911
Best rank ever
#1,316
1992
Peak year
2004
135 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,285
Count in 2025
50

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,938
2005
Peak year
2005
17 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
80
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keona

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

IlonaAlonaKeonnaKionaKeyonaWynonaKeoniSimonaVeronaDeonaElonaSedonaZonaRomonaTeonaKeoshaOonaJonaShonaSonaArizonaTonaVionaRiona

Names with a curve like Keona

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Keona, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JovannaYaniraFranchescaKadyJenessaRebekaKarahColbyChassidyLizetAnishaTierney

Sibling names for Keona

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

Explore around Keona

Top names of 2004, Keona's peak yearThe 2000s in fullOther names that peaked in 1992Girls' names starting with K