Keya
Keya is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 160.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 197278 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1967
- 1,897people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,897 girls have been named Keya in the United States since 1967, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 78 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1970s alone account for 25%.
By decade
In 1972, its biggest year
Keya was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1972 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1972.
Names that rose and fell with Keya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shantipeak 2003
- Kenyapeak 1973
- Jolenapeak 1982
- Neelypeak 1974
- Sammipeak 1974
- Tahirapeak 1975
- Angeliquepeak 1970
- Breepeak 2010
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.