girls:
5 births since 1989
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
355 births since 1992
#4231 (8th percentile)
overall:
360 births since 1989
#7379 (5th percentile)
The name Keontay is the #7,379 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 360 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 4.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,231 (7.7% percentile) for all time with 355 births since 1992. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1989.
Keontay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for girls and 1992 for boys). Birth data for Keontay is available in 31 out of the 35 years between 1989 and 2023 (30 years for boys and 1 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 Keontay has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 1992, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1989 to 1991), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1992 to 2023).
For boys, Keontay reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #789) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 14 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Keontay ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 22.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Keontay reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keontay".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Keontay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.2% confident that Keontay is pronounced as kee-AHN-tay, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kee-AWN-tay, at 15.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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