Keanu
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #12,243 · #648 for boys in 2025, 427 births
Given to boys 97.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 557 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,695since 1990
Keanu over time
Rank among boys' names. Keanu has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #648 | 427 | |
| 2024 | — | #631 | 442 | |
| 2023 | — | #536 | 551 | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #591 | 484 |
| 2021 | — | #532 | 553 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #515 | 557 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #630 | 429 |
| 2018 | — | #799 | 283 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #890 | 242 |
| 2016 | — | #973 | 211 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,023 | 198 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,257 | 142 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,483 | 110 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,191 | 151 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,118 | 163 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,143 | 162 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,125 | 164 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,111 | 165 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,102 | 165 | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,033 | 177 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #972 | 179 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #867 | 202 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #836 | 208 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #807 | 212 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #674 | 269 |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 | #770 | 216 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #837 | 180 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | #970 | 142 |
| 1997 | #6,163 | 15 | #767 | 194 |
| 1996 | #4,453 | 23 | #620 | 280 |
| 1995 | #3,492 | 31 | #537 | 356 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | #752 | 195 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #1,108 | 102 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #1,068 | 105 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #1,336 | 71 |
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Keanu! It came in at #5,823, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.
Where Keanu is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#101 · 1 in 326
- New Mexico#309 · 1 in 1,157
- California#514 · 1 in 3,424
- Oregon#615 · 1 in 3,475
- Washington#620 · 1 in 3,556
Best ever in a state: #32 in Hawaii, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #101 | 13 | 1 in 326 |
| New Mexico | #309 | 7 | 1 in 1,157 |
| California | #514 | 63 | 1 in 3,424 |
| Oregon | #615 | 5 | 1 in 3,475 |
| Washington | #620 | 10 | 1 in 3,556 |
| Arizona | #655 | 8 | 1 in 4,328 |
| Virginia | #711 | 8 | 1 in 5,094 |
| Colorado | #758 | 5 | 1 in 5,290 |
| Florida | #759 | 17 | 1 in 5,687 |
| Georgia | #851 | 9 | 1 in 5,966 |
| Michigan | #873 | 7 | 1 in 6,632 |
| Tennessee | #932 | 5 | 1 in 7,254 |
| North Carolina | #938 | 7 | 1 in 7,332 |
| Texas | #952 | 21 | 1 in 8,389 |
| New York | #1,105 | 10 | 1 in 9,755 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Keanu
- 17 spots since 2024 (#631 → #648)
- 133 spots since 2020 (#515 → #648)
- 375 spots since 2015 (#1,023 → #648)
- Biggest jump: 356 spots in 1994 (#1,108 → #752)
- Biggest drop: 203 spots in 1998 (#767 → #970)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2020 at #515 (557 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1994–2005
- Highest: 1 in 3,099 boys born in 2020 were named Keanu (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,000 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 34.7% of all boys named Keanu (3,014) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1,633 | #537 (1995) | #1,382 |
| 2000s | 1,957 | #674 (2001) | #930 |
| 2010s | 2,091 | #630 (2019) | #1,051 |
| 2020s | 3,014 | #515 (2020) | #576 |
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.
Keanu in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 345,292 of them was named Keanu, which outranked 13.8% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #14,124Zyleigh6
- #14,124Zyllah6
- #14,124Zyona6
- #15,902Keanu5
- #15,902Aadilynn5
- #15,902Aafiyah5
- #15,902Aaheli5
Tied with 2,546 names at #15,902; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 7,649 of them was named Keanu, which outranked 93.8% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).