Keanu

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Keanu: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Keanu: Recorded every year since 1995, its highest recorded position is #96, and it stood at #711 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#96highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#505
1997	#505
1998	#554
1999	#639
2000	#596
2001	#524
2002	#993
2003	#615
2004	#717
2005	#691
2006	#733
2007	#799
2008	#1048
2009	#972
2010	#1407
2011	#1522
2012	#1313
2013	#1116
2014	#1421
2015	#1442
2016	#1271
2017	#1210
2018	#731
2019	#518
2020	#496
2021	#676
2022	#640
2023	#625
2024	#711

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #625 among boys in England and Wales, #770 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1995–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #505 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #711 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Keanu appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,006 births with the name.

Keanu across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Keanu's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#505 (1996)	#496 (2020)	#711 (2024)	29 of 29	1,006 (1996–2024)	77 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#518 (2005)	#518 (2005)	#770 (2023)	4 of 19	12 (2005–2023)	3 (2005)

Keanu by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Keanu in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	133	4 of 10	33
2000s	309	10 of 10	31
2010s	272	10 of 10	27
2020sbusiest	292	5 of 10	58

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 58 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2018 and 2019, when recorded births rose by 29, from 46 to 75.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Keanu appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1995 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #96 in New Zealand in 1995.

Keanu's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#711	50	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#625	57	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#640	55	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#676	53	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#496	77	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#518	75	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#731	46	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1210	22	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1271	21	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1442	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1421	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1116	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1313	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1522	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#972	27	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1048	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#799	33	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#733	35	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#691	37	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#717	32	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#615	36	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#993	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#524	37	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#596	31	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#639	27	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#554	33	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#505	37	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#505	36	High	Verified
1995	New Zealand	male	#96	54	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1995 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #96, first reached in 1995.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 77 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 10 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Keane · #193, 30y
Keano · #1591, 27y
Keara · #362, 31y
Keaton · #271, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Paddy · #96, 32y
Israel · #92, 29y
Cuan · #102, 31y
Eirinn · #102, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Autumn · #96, 30y
Cohen · #96, 30y
Embla · #96, 33y
Kora · #96, 27y

Keanu was ranked #96 in New Zealand · Boys in 1995. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Keanu and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Keanu without appearing here.

Keanu moved ahead of

Murray Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1271 and #1271 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #1210 and #2324.
Craig Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1210 and #1124 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #731 and #1786.
Grant Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1313 and #1313 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1116 and #2055.
Derek Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1210 and #1210 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #731 and #1533.

Moved ahead of Keanu

Jan Compare
In 2001 they stood at #524 and #842 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #993 and #633.
Kasper Compare
In 2007 they stood at #799 and #820 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1048 and #728.
Albie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #524 and #728 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #993 and #722.
Hudson Compare
In 2006 they stood at #733 and #885 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #799 and #538.

Moved the opposite way to Keanu

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keanu went from #505 to #711 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keanu went from #505 to #711 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keanu went from #505 to #711 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keanu went from #505 to #711 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Keanu

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keanu went from #505 to #711 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keanu went from #505 to #711 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keanu went from #505 to #711 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Keanu went from #505 to #711 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1995 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #96 in New Zealand in 1995. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Popularity journey

Keanu across 2 official records

Keanu by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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