girls:
102 births since 1977
#5614 (2nd percentile)
boys:
219 births since 1979
#4367 (5th percentile)
overall:
321 births since 1977
#7418 (4th percentile)
The name Keyonta is the #7,418 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 321 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 4.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,367 (4.7% percentile) for all time with 219 births since 1979. For girls, it ranks #5,614 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 102 births since 1977.
Keyonta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (1977 for girls and 1979 for boys). Birth data for Keyonta is available in 30 out of the 38 years between 1977 and 2014 (23 years for boys and 16 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 Keyonta has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (68.2% of all recorded births). In 2014, 100.0% of babies named Keyonta were boys. Interestingly, until around 1994, the name was more popular for girls (68.4% girls from 1977 to 1993), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (88.4% boys from 1994 to 2014).
For boys, Keyonta reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #782) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
For girls, Keyonta reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #799) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Keyonta".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Keonta. View all variations of Keonta.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Keyonta", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 3 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Keonta" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Keonta..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Keyonta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.5% confident that Keyonta is pronounced as kee-AHN-tuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kee-AWN-tuh, at 26.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Keyonta? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Keyonta. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Keyonta, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K IY0 AA1 N T AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker