About the name Keanu
Keanu belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Keanu first appears in Social Security records in 1990. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #514 in 2020, and in 2024 442 babies received the name — 8,264 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.