Keanu

Where Keanu comes from

Borrowed from Hawaiian Keanu.
— Wiktionary's entry for Keanu
  • Hawaiian
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1964
    Keanu Reeves born
    Canadian actor and musician
  2. 1990
    First appearance
    #5,823 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1995
    Keanu Pinder born
    Australian basketball player
  4. 2020
    Peak, #515
    557 babies named Keanu — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hawaiian.
Namesakes
  • Keanu Reeves · Canadian actor and musician, born 1964
  • Keanu Pinder · Australian basketball player, born 1995
  • Keanu Marsh-Brown · Guyanese association football player, born 1992
  • Keanu Neal · American football player, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.