girls:
27 births since 1990
#5689 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1987
#3449 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1987
#6559 (15th percentile)
The name Keontae is the #6,559 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,181 recorded births since 1987. This represents the 15.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,449 (24.7% percentile) for all time with 1,154 births since 1987. For girls, it ranks #5,689 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1990.
Keontae first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1987 (1987 for boys and 1990 for girls). Birth data for Keontae is available in 36 out of the 37 years between 1987 and 2023 (36 years for boys and 5 years for girls). 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 Keontae has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Keontae reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 9.8% percentile (ranked #734) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 41 births per million (ranked 9.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Keontae ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 36.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keontae reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #896) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keontae".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Keontae. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.6% confident that Keontae is pronounced as kee-AHN-tay, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kee-AHN-TAY, at 22.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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