Keaton
#2,153 for girls in 2025, 86 births · #769 for boys in 2025, 333 births
Given to boys 94.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 761 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 22,087since 1925
Keaton over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,153 | 86 | #769 | 333 |
| 2024 | #4,772 | 28 | #845 | 288 |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 | #874 | 268 |
| 2022 | #5,028 | 26 | #797 | 315 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | #735 | 348 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #690 | 369 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 | #578 | 482 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 | #544 | 518 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 | #572 | 477 |
| 2016 | #3,588 | 43 | #535 | 548 |
| 2015 | #3,842 | 39 | #480 | 623 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 | #438 | 694 |
| 2013 | #3,513 | 44 | #421 | 701 |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 | #394 | 750 |
| 2011 | #2,945 | 58 | #365 | 814 |
| 2010 | #3,360 | 48 | #367 | 804 |
| 2009 | #3,800 | 41 | #379 | 802 |
| 2008 | #3,377 | 49 | #368 | 833 |
| 2007 | #3,376 | 49 | #358 | 881 |
| 2006 | #3,090 | 54 | #382 | 781 |
| 2005 | #4,487 | 30 | #366 | 808 |
| 2004 | #2,742 | 59 | #354 | 794 |
| 2003 | #3,232 | 45 | #363 | 735 |
| 2002 | #3,595 | 37 | #389 | 670 |
| 2001 | #3,316 | 41 | #381 | 682 |
| 2000 | #3,070 | 45 | #353 | 761 |
| 1999 | #3,188 | 40 | #354 | 737 |
| 1998 | #2,929 | 44 | #363 | 717 |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 | #366 | 675 |
| 1996 | #3,723 | 29 | #429 | 525 |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 | #445 | 516 |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 | #480 | 444 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | #523 | 378 |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 | #522 | 374 |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 | #583 | 303 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #592 | 283 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | #667 | 225 |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | #739 | 163 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #798 | 135 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #792 | 131 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #866 | 109 |
| 1984 | — | #1,076 | 69 | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #1,361 | 47 |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #2,207 | 23 |
| 1981 | — | #2,898 | 15 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,058 | 26 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,669 | 17 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,012 | 24 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,606 | 10 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,837 | 8 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Keaton! It came in at #4,197, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Keaton is popular in 1925
No state had 5 or more boys named Keaton in 1925, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Keaton
- 76 spots since 2024 (#845 → #769)
- 79 spots since 2020 (#690 → #769)
- 289 spots since 2015 (#480 → #769)
- Biggest jump: 210 spots in 1985 (#1,076 → #866)
- Biggest drop: 112 spots in 2020 (#578 → #690)
- Debuted 1925
- Peaked 2000 at #353 (761 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 41 yrs · run 1985–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,333 boys born in 2011 were named Keaton (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,129 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #353 in 2000, was only 1 in 2,581 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.1% of all boys named Keaton (7,747) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,197 (1925) | #4,197 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,048 (1963) | #4,048 |
| 1970s | 103 | #2,012 (1978) | #3,673 |
| 1980s | 943 | #667 (1989) | #1,346 |
| 1990s | 4,952 | #354 (1999) | #466 |
| 2000s | 7,747 | #353 (2000) | #369 |
| 2010s | 6,411 | #365 (2011) | #469 |
| 2020s | 1,921 | #690 (2020) | #785 |
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.
Keaton in 1925
Top boys' names in 1925
More about 1925
boys
1,115,919 boys got a published name in 1925; 1 in 223,184 of them was named Keaton, which outranked 13.8% of the 4,867 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 670 names at #4,197; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.