Keanu
Keanu is ranked 632nd among boys in 2024 (442 births). Its best rank was 514th, in 2020.
- Rank in 2024
- #632down 95 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4420.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 2020556 births
- Best rank
- #514in 2020
- Since 1990
- 8,489people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,264 boys have been named Keanu in the United States since 1990, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 556 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2020, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2020s alone account for 31%. It has spent 21 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 225 girls have also been given it, 2.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2020, its biggest year
Keanu was the 514th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Keanu
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Natanaelpeak 2020
- Slaterpeak 2022
- Osmanpeak 2022
- Kailanpeak 2022
- Tymirpeak 2024
- Aliaspeak 2023
- Ezequielpeak 2024
- Questpeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.