Kealii

Peak · boys
1980 · 10 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
284
since 1974

Kealii over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Kealii has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank197019801990200020102020peak #3,838, 1980boys
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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
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#9,7147
2024#8,9878
2023#6,51713
2022#8,9908
2021#7,08911
2020#12,0225
2019#10,8036
2018#6,70312
2017#8,8408
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2015#8,7448
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2013#8,1189
2012#8,1589
2011#10,8086
2010#9,6937
2009#12,4915
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2007#7,09411
2006#12,0555
2005#7,09610
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2003#7,2459
2002#7,6438
2001#6,9359
2000#6,8399
1999#6,5309
1998#7,5607
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1996#4,39614
1995#5,9289
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1993#6,2288
1992#6,6707
1991#7,2716
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1977#5,1236
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First appearance
1974

The first year at least five boys were named Kealii! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1974–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Kealii is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Kealii in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Kealii
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 727 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #9,714)
  • 2,308 spots since 2020 (#12,022 → #9,714)
  • 970 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #9,714)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1974
  • Peaked 1980 at #3,838 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1981, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 131,583
  • Highest: 1 in 131,583 boys born in 2023 were named Kealii (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,838 in 1980, was only 1 in 178,395 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 23.2% of all boys named Kealii (66) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s17#5,059 (1978)#5,136
1980s24#3,838 (1980)#5,211
1990s60#4,396 (1996)#6,369
2000s66#6,839 (2000)#8,425
2010s65#6,703 (2018)#8,983
2020s52#6,517 (2023)#8,887

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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