Keyo
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keyo has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1985, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Keyo, 2008
1 in 786,000
Keyo 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Keyo?
Keyo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 786,000
- 5 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 408,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 544,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keyo sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keyo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keyos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keyo was born before 1987 — so the typical Keyo is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 66.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 15
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Keyo 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 1985 (5)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Keyo
Keyo is not the most common spelling — Leo is, with 54.0% against Keyo's <0.01%.
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.
Keyo around the world
Where Keyo 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.
- France2010–2010#5,686in 2010
- South Australia1997–1997#543in 1997
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Keyo by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keyo
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keyo
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.