Keondra
Feminine
Keondra is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,107 girls against 17 boys since 1880.
Keondra has no source, and neither half of it is a word in any language. The front is a syllable in wide American circulation, the back is an ending in the same circulation, and the record preserves no account of who put them together or why.
How old is the name Keondra?
Keondra first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Keondra alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 1,100 people named Keondra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Keondra most popular?
Keondra peaked in 1996, reaching #1864 nationally. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Keondra
The middle of this name carries a cluster English allows only in one position. The three consonants in the center are fine here because they fall across a syllable break, which is the same reason laundry and Andrea are comfortable words; put the same sequence at the start of a word and no English speaker could say it. Every language has rules of this kind and every speaker of it knows them without being taught, which is why an invented name that obeys them sounds like a name and one that breaks them sounds like a typing error. Names built from scratch almost never break them, and this is the evidence that the people building them know exactly what they are doing.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No meaning can be given. Books that supply one reach for Irish or Swahili on the strength of a syllable and cannot produce a word from either. What can be said is what the name is made of and when it appears, which is a history rather than an etymology.
Pronouncing Keondra
kee-ON-druh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The first and last are reduced, which is why the record also holds Keandra and Kiondra with no audible difference.
Nicknames for Keondra
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
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 199678 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1864reached in 1996
- Change vs 2013
- 0.0%5 in 2017, from 5
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.
Keondras among us
people named Keondra are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Keondra sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It works for a child of either sex, which the record confirms.
- Every sound in it is ordinary English and it is easy to say from the page.
- The rhythm is the settled American one and the name sounds established.
- The record carries it for boys as well as girls, so it signals nothing on a form.
- Several spellings of the same sound circulate, so spelling it out is permanent.
- There is no meaning to give a child who asks.
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Frequently asked
- How many Keondras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Keondra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Keondra in 2025?
- Keondra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Keondra with classmates?
- Keondra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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