Keina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Welsh cain ‘beautiful’; first attested Keina mater Berte 1202 AssL
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Keina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 131K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 198K
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
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
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 131K (inferred from the name graph)
249 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Welsh cain ‘beautiful’; first attested Keina mater Berte 1202 AssL
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Keina 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 | 249 | 1 in 1.3M | 249 | Keina | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 193 | 1 in 1.1M | 195 | Keina | 26 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Keina | 11 |
| CO Colombia | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 496K | — | Keina | 21 |
| CR Costa Rica | 39 | 1 in 131K | 39 | Keina | 5 |
| PA Panama | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 378K | — | Keina | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
249 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Keina is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
—žr. Keinys
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Latvian, Keina baseins - Neirsa šaurums starp Grendlandi un Elsmīras salu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Igaunijā, Hījumā salas dienvidaustrumos
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 249 | #33,297 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 195 | #25,607 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 193 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 192 | #14,447 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 183 | #26,090 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 165 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 122 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 67 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 55 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 43 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 39 | #3,871 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 36 | — |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Keina mean, and where does it come from?
- from Welsh cain ‘beautiful’; first attested Keina mater Berte 1202 AssL Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Keina?
- A machine transcription gives /kinə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Keina a male or female name?
- Keina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Keina have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 249 people named Keina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keina.
- Where is Keina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Keina is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 131 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Keina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 249 people named Keina in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Keina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keinaThe 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, “Keina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.