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The first name 
Keena

Keena is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.

Keena – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Keena in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Keena in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Keena by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Keena ranks at #9,034. That means there are 9,033 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Keena.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Keena

Keena -
keeping with the times

Keena is a quite familiar phenomenon. Before 1900, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. It took a while, but then, unexpectedly, Keena cried out for attention, reaching rank 810 in 1972. So, schoolkids of the late 19th century probably didn't have classmates named Keena and it has never reached the top 100 list in our statistics, but for a while it became more and more fashionable in the last century, which makes Keena really in tune with her generation.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Keena was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Keena in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

6 babies were named Keena in 2022 - that's 1 in 24,705,317 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Keena ranked 11,784 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which first records are available.

Keena -
quite rare in all states

The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Keena are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Keena is registered in 17 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Indiana. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Keena live in Illinois, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 90,104 would turn around if you called the name Keena across Illinois.

Keena has 5 letters 
and begins with a K

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.

With five letters, the name Keena is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.

Other names with 
K, e, e, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Keena – K, e, e, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Keean or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Keena

If your name is Keena and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Keena

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Keena, you can simply say:

Koala

Elephant

Elephant

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Keena is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Keena in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Keena

Keena

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Keena

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Keena is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
E
E
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Keena

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

K
E
E
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Keena sounds like this: