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How popular is the name Kea?

Births per year, rank history and how many Keas are alive today.

Kea (female) last appeared in the England and Wales name records in 2012 (ranked 5876th); fewer than three babies a year have been given the name since. This spelling of the name peaked in 2004, when 11 babies were given the name, the 1836th most popular that year. Kea is one spelling of a name also recorded as Qi; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Kea you are most likely to meet is around 23 years old. Half of all Keas born in England and Wales are between 15 and 28, and there are at least 140 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Kea - on average, only one in every 2,250 such rooms contains a Kea.

How many babies are named Kea each year?

Includes all spellings: Kea, Qi. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Kea spelling rank?

Where does the Qi spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.