girls:
502 births since 1978
#5214 (9th percentile)
boys:
54 births since 2005
#4532 (1st percentile)
overall:
556 births since 1978
#7183 (7th percentile)
The name Keani is the #7,183 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 556 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 7.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,214 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 502 births since 1978. For boys, it ranks #4,532 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 54 births since 2005.
Keani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for girls and 2005 for boys). Birth data for Keani is available in 37 out of the 46 years between 1978 and 2023 (37 years for girls and 9 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Keani has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Keani reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #961) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Keani ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 35.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Keani reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #926) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keani".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Keani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.2% confident that Keani is pronounced as kee-AH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-nee, at 27.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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