Keona
Feminine
Keona is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 3,285 girls against 80 boys since 1880.
Keona comes into American records through Hawaiian, where the definite article ke opens a great many names and where foreign names have been remade for two centuries. It is used for girls and boys alike in the islands.
How old is the name Keona?
Keona first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Keona alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 3,200 people named Keona are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Keona most popular?
Keona peaked in 1992, reaching #1312 nationally. Today it ranks #3167, 1,855 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
Keona appears on this list:
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Keona
Our reading, plainly labeled. Hawaiian has eight consonants, which means a foreign name entering the language does not arrive so much as get rebuilt. Keona has the marks of that process: a Hawaiian article at the front, open vowels throughout, and no consonant that Hawaiian lacks. Whether the name it was built from was Joan, Joanna or something else is no longer recoverable, and the result has been a Hawaiian name for long enough that the question has stopped mattering to the families who use it.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No settled meaning. The opening ke is the Hawaiian definite article and is genuine. Beyond that the name is generally treated as a Hawaiian rendering of a foreign name — Joan and Joanna are the usual candidates — rather than a Hawaiian word in its own right.
Pronouncing Keona
kay-OH-nah
Three syllables with every vowel sounded, stress in the middle. Mainland usage often gives kee-OH-nuh.
Nicknames for Keona
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1973
- Most girls named
- 2004135 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1312reached in 1992
- Change vs 2024
- +127.3%50 in 2025, from 22
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Keona in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Keona in Hawaiian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Washington.
Keonas among us
people named Keona are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 32,145 born in 2025 was named Keona
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Keona
- #3167
- Keona on the 2025 chart
- #887
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Keona went to 50 girls in 2025, but Keonna is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 73, which makes it the 887th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,280 places above the chart.
- Keona50
- Keonna23
About 1 girl in 22,017 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 32,145 for Keona itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lianne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Keona's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lianne climbed just as high around 1960, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lianne's path sketches the road Keona is walking now.
Keona sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Keona is headed
Keona should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Keona beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Keona in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Open vowels throughout, so it is readable in Hawaiian, Spanish and English alike.
- It is used for girls and boys in the islands, which makes it workable before a birth.
- Three usable short forms, one of them a name in its own right.
- The first vowel is said differently on the mainland than in Hawaii.
- Keona, Kiona and Keiona all appear in the records.
- There is no documented meaning, and the glosses offered in name lists are guesses.
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Frequently asked
- How many Keonas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,200 people named Keona are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Keona?
- Keona is the most-used spelling in US records — 50 of the 73 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Keonna.
- How popular is the name Keona in 2025?
- Keona ranks #3167 among US girl names in 2025, with 50 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Keona?
- About 1 in every 32,145 US girls born in 2025 was named Keona — 50 in all.
- Will my child share the name Keona with classmates?
- Keona will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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