Meaning not yet researched.
Keontae: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,456 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,456 in 2000; #3,902 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keontae in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,902 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,456.
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Keontae: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,456 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 85 (2000).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Keontae, making it the 3,902nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 602 places from #4,504 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 23 boys named Keontae in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,456, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 85. For comparison, it was #4,631 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keontae in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 1,232 US babies have been given the name, 2.2% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 537 babies named Keontae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 221 US boys were named Keontae; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kenta, Keonta and Keyontae 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: Kenta (716), Keonta (497), Keyontae (488), Keontay (375), Keyonta (321), Keyontay (77), Keiontae (77), Keontaye (30), Kentae (26), Keantae (20), Kentay (12), Kiontae (11), and more.
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 Keontae in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 28 | #3,902 |
| 2024 | — | — | 23 | #4,504 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,070 |
| 2022 | — | — | 23 | #4,511 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,240 |
| 2020 | — | — | 28 | #3,769 |
| 2019 | — | — | 21 | #4,717 |
| 2018 | — | — | 22 | #4,545 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,207 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,547 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,631 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,197 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,540 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,611 |
| 2011 | — | — | 31 | #3,479 |
| 2010 | — | — | 49 | #2,531 |
| 2009 | — | — | 46 | #2,685 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,657 |
| 2007 | — | — | 56 | #2,323 |
| 2006 | — | — | 61 | #2,138 |
| 2005 | — | — | 30 | #3,352 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,363 |
| 2003 | — | — | 42 | #2,492 |
| 2002 | — | — | 60 | #1,881 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,459 | 50 | #2,101 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,076 | 85 | #1,456 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,633 | 56 | #1,792 |
| 1998 | — | — | 50 | #1,947 |
| 1997 | — | — | 29 | #2,718 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,572 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,570 | 28 | #2,655 |
| 1994 | — | — | 29 | #2,593 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,095 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,067 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,132 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,071 | 7 | #6,828 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,941 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,591 |
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).