girls:
225 births since 1991
#5491 (4th percentile)
boys:
7.8k births since 1990
#1333 (71st percentile)
overall:
8k births since 1990
#3015 (61st percentile)
The name Keanu is the #3,015 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,041 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 61.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,333 (70.9% percentile) for all time with 7,816 births since 1990. For girls, it ranks #5,491 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 225 births since 1991.
Keanu first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for boys and 1991 for girls).
The name Keanu has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keanu reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 49.2% percentile (ranked #458) with 301 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 301 births per million (ranked 49.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Keanu is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #469 (48.6% percentile) with 300 births per million.
For girls, Keanu reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #823) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keanu".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Keanu. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.3% confident that Keanu is pronounced as kee-AH-nue, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kay-AH-nue, at 19.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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