Given name & surname
Keita
“a worshiper”
Keita is used as a given name and a surname. One African interpretation is “a worshiper.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “a worshiper.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Keita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 680
- 491 boys · 189 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 49 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,001 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −63%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,001 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 33 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 805 as a first name in 2020; 2,655 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Keita’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Keita was borrowed from the English form Kate. Keita has a related form in Keitha. In Japanese usage, Keita is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 京太.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Keita has relatives in 3 languages.
8 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 8
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Keita
- Keita SuzukiJapanese association football playerborn 1981
- Keita BaldéSenegalese and Spanish professional footballer y familia de media españaborn 1995
- Keita EndōJapanese footballer (born 1997)
- Keita SugimotoJapanese association football playerborn 1982
- Keita KanemotoJapanese association football playerborn 1977
- Keita IsozakiJapanese association football playerborn 1980
- Keita YamashitaJapanese association football playerborn 1996
- Keita FujimuraJapanese association football playerborn 1993
- Keita GotoJapanese association football playerborn 1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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