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How popular is “Keanu” in the USA?

Number of people named “Keanu” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Keanu” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Keanu” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Keanu” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Keanu” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Keanu” by birth year

This chart shows how “Keanu” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1990 8 0.000002024 8 -100%
1991 86 0.000022078 15 71 -65%
1992 117 0.000030459 12 105 -79%
1993 115 0.000030502 13 102 -77%
1994 208 0.000055949 13 195 -88%
1995 387 0.000105675 31 356 -84%
1996 303 0.000083078 23 280 -85%
1997 209 0.000057643 15 194 -86%
1998 157 0.000042684 15 142 -81%
1999 190 0.000051437 10 180 -89%
2000 236 0.000062435 20 216 -83%
2001 277 0.000073997 8 269 -94%
2002 217 0.000058048 5 212 -95%
2003 213 0.000056018 5 208 -95%
2004 208 0.000054437 6 202 -94%
2005 185 0.000048116 6 179 -94%
2006 182 0.000046004 5 177 -95%
2007 164 0.000041024 164 -100%
2008 165 0.000041978 165 -100%
2009 164 0.00004293 164 -100%
2010 162 0.000043834 162 -100%
2011 163 0.000044562 163 -100%
2012 151 0.000041287 151 -100%
2013 110 0.000030173 110 -100%
2014 142 0.000038312 142 -100%
2015 198 0.0000535 198 -100%
2016 211 0.000057514 211 -100%
2017 247 0.000069068 5 242 -96%
2018 282 0.000080207 282 -100%
2019 435 0.000125327 6 429 -97%
2020 561 0.000167935 5 556 -98%
2021 553 0.000163226 553 -100%
2022 490 0.000144836 7 483 -97%
2023 551 0.000166405 551 -100%
2024 442 0.000132793 442 -100%

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