girls:
31 births since 1974
#5685 (1st percentile)
boys:
563 births since 1973
#4023 (12th percentile)
overall:
594 births since 1973
#7145 (8th percentile)
The name Keola is the #7,145 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 594 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,023 (12.2% percentile) for all time with 563 births since 1973. For girls, it ranks #5,685 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1974.
Keola first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1974 for girls).
The name Keola has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keola reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #660) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 14 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Keola ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 30.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keola reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #935) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keola".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Keola. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Keola is pronounced as kee-OH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kay-OH-luh, at 43.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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