Keola
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Keola is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ke (“the”) + ola (“life; healthy one”). Also a short form of compound given names beginning thus.
- GYGuyana1 in 28K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 548K
- FRFrance≈1 in 31M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
607 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ke (“the”) + ola (“life; healthy one”). Also a short form of compound given names beginning thus.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Keola counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 607 | 1 in 548K | 485 | Keola | 10 |
| GY Guyana | 27 | 1 in 28K | 27 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 31M | — | Keola | 16 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | 1 | — | — |
607 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Keola is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hawaiian, a male or (less commonly today) female given name from Hawaiian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 485 | #17,930 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 122 | #17,930 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 27 | #567 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 14 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Keola mean, and where does it come from?
- ke (“the”) + ola (“life; healthy one”). Also a short form of compound given names beginning thus. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Keola?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Keola a male or female name?
- Keola is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Keola have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 607 people named Keola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keola.
- Where is Keola most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Keola is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Keola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 607 people named Keola in 2020, about 1 in 548 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Keola?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keolaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Keola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.