Keala
- #8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Given to girls 96.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 50 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 853since 1969
Keala over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Keala has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | — | |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | — | |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | — | |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 | — | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | — | |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | — | |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 | — | |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,126 | 50 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,172 | 33 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,791 | 24 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 | — | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | — | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 | — | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
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First appearance
1969
The first year at least five girls were named Keala! It came in at #5,974, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1975, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Keala is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Keala in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Keala
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 2,466 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #8,860)
- 1,390 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #8,860)
- 4,146 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #8,860)
Rise & fade · girls
36 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2005 at #3,126 (50 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 36,957
- Highest: 1 in 36,957 girls born in 2005 were named Keala (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 33.8% of all girls named Keala (288) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #5,974 (1969) | #5,974 |
| 1970s | 74 | #5,427 (1979) | #7,054 |
| 1980s | 111 | #5,245 (1980) | #6,247 |
| 1990s | 154 | #4,677 (1995) | #6,238 |
| 2000s | 288 | #3,126 (2005) | #4,909 |
| 2010s | 147 | #5,108 (2010) | #8,403 |
| 2020s | 72 | #6,394 (2024) | #8,736 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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