Kean
- #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · boys
- 1955 · 13 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 997since 1944
Kean over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Kean has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #4,476 | 22 |
| 2017 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #4,327 | 23 |
| 2015 | #4,179 | 24 |
| 2014 | #3,787 | 27 |
| 2013 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | #4,356 | 22 |
| 2010 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #3,831 | 27 |
| 2008 | #3,561 | 30 |
| 2007 | #3,444 | 31 |
| 2006 | #4,001 | 24 |
| 2005 | #3,815 | 24 |
| 2004 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #3,974 | 20 |
| 2000 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #3,708 | 19 |
| 1997 | #3,261 | 22 |
| 1996 | #2,838 | 26 |
| 1995 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #3,109 | 22 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #3,601 | 11 |
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| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
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| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #2,409 | 12 |
| 1963 | #2,858 | 9 |
| 1962 | #2,848 | 9 |
| 1961 | #2,322 | 13 |
| 1960 | #3,077 | 8 |
| 1959 | #2,663 | 10 |
| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #2,375 | 12 |
| 1956 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #2,219 | 13 |
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| 1948 | #3,010 | 7 |
| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
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| 1944 | #3,430 | 5 |
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First appearance
1944
The first year at least five boys were named Kean! It came in at #3,430, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kean is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Kean in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Kean
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 2,236 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #7,679)
- 1,980 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #7,679)
- 3,500 spots since 2015 (#4,179 → #7,679)
Rise & fade · boys
11 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1955 at #2,219 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1956, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 65,412
- Highest: 1 in 65,412 boys born in 2012 were named Kean (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,219 in 1955, was only 1 in 158,453 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 24.0% of all boys named Kean (239) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 17 | #3,010 (1948) | #3,391 |
| 1950s | 46 | #2,219 (1955) | #2,947 |
| 1960s | 78 | #2,322 (1961) | #3,083 |
| 1970s | 45 | #3,282 (1970) | #4,098 |
| 1980s | 83 | #3,601 (1981) | #4,452 |
| 1990s | 175 | #2,838 (1996) | #3,901 |
| 2000s | 239 | #3,368 (2004) | #3,885 |
| 2010s | 223 | #3,625 (2012) | #4,468 |
| 2020s | 91 | #5,110 (2021) | #5,925 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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