Keya
#7,687 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keya has been given to 1,911 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #7,687 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1972, with 78 recorded.
Babies named Keya, 2025
1 in 237,000
Keya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Keya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,687
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keya sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keya was born before 1995 — so the typical Keya is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 24.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,911
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 24.3% of all recorded uses (465).
Is Keya 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
- −603
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,715
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,953
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.34×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 17.9%
- Peak was 1972 (78)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.0% average annual change
Spellings of Keya
Keya is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 13.9% against Keya's 0.08%.
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 Keya is used
Across 1910–2025, Keya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 229,855 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 3Illinois1 in 100,000
- 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 5Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 6Florida1 in —
- 7Louisiana1 in —
- 8Maryland1 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. Keya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keya around the world
Where Keya 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 & Wales1996–2025#3,333in 2025
- France2005–2025#3,124in 2025
- Canada2003–2024#2,256in 2024
- South Australia2004–2004#700in 2004
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.
Keya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.