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 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#133 · 1 in 494
- Montana#152 · 1 in 488
- North Dakota#172 · 1 in 550
- Kentucky#179 · 1 in 765
- West Virginia#203 · 1 in 835
Best ever in a state: #79 in North Dakota, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #133 | 41 | 1 in 494 |
| Montana | #152 | 8 | 1 in 488 |
| North Dakota | #172 | 7 | 1 in 550 |
| Kentucky | #179 | 29 | 1 in 765 |
| West Virginia | #203 | 10 | 1 in 835 |
| South Dakota | #205 | 6 | 1 in 680 |
| Kansas | #206 | 21 | 1 in 766 |
| Indiana | #209 | 39 | 1 in 915 |
| Iowa | #214 | 19 | 1 in 796 |
| Arkansas | #223 | 16 | 1 in 892 |
| Missouri | #242 | 29 | 1 in 1,095 |
| Tennessee | #253 | 30 | 1 in 1,193 |
| Nebraska | #258 | 10 | 1 in 989 |
| Alabama | #261 | 18 | 1 in 1,233 |
| Utah | #266 | 21 | 1 in 1,031 |
| Wisconsin | #268 | 22 | 1 in 1,240 |
| Ohio | #287 | 38 | 1 in 1,573 |
| Michigan | #297 | 33 | 1 in 1,444 |
| Colorado | #313 | 20 | 1 in 1,358 |
| Washington | #334 | 22 | 1 in 1,633 |
| Oregon | #337 | 12 | 1 in 1,506 |
| Minnesota | #369 | 13 | 1 in 2,131 |
| Idaho | #396 | 5 | 1 in 1,619 |
| Illinois | #398 | 28 | 1 in 2,376 |
| Texas | #407 | 72 | 1 in 2,467 |
| North Carolina | #426 | 19 | 1 in 2,661 |
| Virginia | #465 | 14 | 1 in 2,987 |
| Nevada | #482 | 5 | 1 in 2,656 |
| Mississippi | #520 | 5 | 1 in 2,691 |
| Louisiana | #567 | 8 | 1 in 3,023 |
| Georgia | #587 | 14 | 1 in 3,858 |
| South Carolina | #587 | 6 | 1 in 3,485 |
| Florida | #606 | 22 | 1 in 4,180 |
| Maryland | #675 | 6 | 1 in 4,623 |
| Arizona | #701 | 7 | 1 in 5,285 |
| California | #716 | 37 | 1 in 6,229 |
| Pennsylvania | #791 | 9 | 1 in 6,692 |
| New York | #1,131 | 10 | 1 in 10,430 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 40,024 of them was named Keaton, which outranked 81.7% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,523Viridiana45
- #3,523Yanira45
- #3,523Zaryah45
- #3,583Keaton44
- #3,583Adelie44
- #3,583Adrionna44
- #3,583Agatha44
- #3,644Aalyiah43
- #3,644Ahtziri43
- #3,644Alesha43
Tied with 60 names at #3,583; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 2,529 of them was named Keaton, which outranked 97.2% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.