Meaning not yet researched.
Kekoa: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,929 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,929 in 2017; #2,296 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kekoa in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,296 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,929.
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Kekoa: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,929 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 75 (2017).
In 2025, 61 US boys were named Kekoa, making it the 2,296th most common boys’ name of the year, up 284 places from #2,580 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 52 boys named Kekoa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,929, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 75. For comparison, it was #2,029 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kekoa in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 2,075 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 623 babies named Kekoa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 624 US boys were named Kekoa; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,001 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kekoa ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #117 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Keiko are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keiko (1,184).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kekoa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 9 | #117 | #216 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,076 | #551 |
| California | 17 | #1,176 | #978 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 61 | #2,296 |
| 2024 | — | — | 52 | #2,580 |
| 2023 | — | — | 67 | #2,162 |
| 2022 | — | — | 71 | #2,109 |
| 2021 | — | — | 59 | #2,340 |
| 2020 | — | — | 58 | #2,336 |
| 2019 | — | — | 64 | #2,199 |
| 2018 | — | — | 50 | #2,561 |
| 2017 | — | — | 75 | #1,929 |
| 2016 | — | — | 67 | #2,103 |
| 2015 | — | — | 71 | #2,029 |
| 2014 | — | — | 56 | #2,331 |
| 2013 | — | — | 58 | #2,241 |
| 2012 | — | — | 57 | #2,280 |
| 2011 | — | — | 62 | #2,137 |
| 2010 | — | — | 63 | #2,136 |
| 2009 | — | — | 66 | #2,084 |
| 2008 | — | — | 67 | #2,080 |
| 2007 | — | — | 59 | #2,247 |
| 2006 | — | — | 49 | #2,494 |
| 2005 | — | — | 53 | #2,257 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,269 |
| 2003 | — | — | 51 | #2,167 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,804 | 46 | #2,276 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,058 | 50 | #2,099 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,054 | 43 | #2,277 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,436 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,424 |
| 1997 | — | — | 30 | #2,650 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,793 |
| 1995 | — | — | 36 | #2,237 |
| 1994 | — | — | 27 | #2,730 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,929 |
| 1992 | — | — | 38 | #2,066 |
| 1991 | — | — | 28 | #2,504 |
| 1990 | — | — | 23 | #2,830 |
| 1989 | — | — | 26 | #2,515 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,056 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,368 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,952 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,519 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,887 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,015 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,594 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,748 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,735 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,637 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #2,995 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,118 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,661 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,797 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,620 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,373 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).