Keegan
#3,249 for girls in 2025, 48 births · #621 for boys in 2025, 449 births
Given to boys 91.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 1,707 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 38,519since 1965
Keegan 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 | #3,249 | 48 | #621 | 449 |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | #593 | 484 |
| 2023 | #2,674 | 65 | #627 | 443 |
| 2022 | #2,956 | 56 | #566 | 523 |
| 2021 | #2,460 | 72 | #492 | 599 |
| 2020 | #2,468 | 70 | #496 | 592 |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 | #425 | 723 |
| 2018 | #2,145 | 88 | #353 | 940 |
| 2017 | #1,721 | 123 | #309 | 1,124 |
| 2016 | #1,815 | 114 | #283 | 1,295 |
| 2015 | #1,643 | 130 | #274 | 1,346 |
| 2014 | #1,746 | 119 | #238 | 1,560 |
| 2013 | #1,529 | 143 | #249 | 1,458 |
| 2012 | #1,791 | 114 | #245 | 1,472 |
| 2011 | #1,646 | 130 | #253 | 1,370 |
| 2010 | #1,621 | 133 | #246 | 1,430 |
| 2009 | #1,710 | 129 | #228 | 1,597 |
| 2008 | #1,468 | 160 | #223 | 1,683 |
| 2007 | #1,340 | 181 | #222 | 1,707 |
| 2006 | #1,682 | 125 | #227 | 1,594 |
| 2005 | #1,790 | 109 | #242 | 1,390 |
| 2004 | #1,643 | 118 | #257 | 1,293 |
| 2003 | #1,755 | 107 | #259 | 1,271 |
| 2002 | #1,606 | 115 | #253 | 1,284 |
| 2001 | #1,627 | 112 | #271 | 1,158 |
| 2000 | #1,504 | 122 | #285 | 1,080 |
| 1999 | #1,893 | 83 | #300 | 957 |
| 1998 | #1,899 | 80 | #305 | 928 |
| 1997 | #2,002 | 71 | #325 | 804 |
| 1996 | #1,840 | 79 | #329 | 799 |
| 1995 | #2,101 | 64 | #359 | 669 |
| 1994 | #2,209 | 60 | #385 | 606 |
| 1993 | #2,768 | 43 | #430 | 516 |
| 1992 | #2,687 | 45 | #453 | 485 |
| 1991 | #2,291 | 56 | #471 | 442 |
| 1990 | #2,850 | 40 | #497 | 385 |
| 1989 | #3,165 | 33 | #528 | 329 |
| 1988 | #2,700 | 39 | #647 | 214 |
| 1987 | #3,031 | 31 | #668 | 188 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 34 | #702 | 165 |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 | #610 | 205 |
| 1984 | #2,149 | 46 | #696 | 157 |
| 1983 | #2,236 | 43 | #777 | 126 |
| 1982 | #2,581 | 36 | #804 | 121 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | #858 | 106 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 | #841 | 110 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 | #976 | 82 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #1,060 | 67 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 | #1,289 | 48 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 | #1,320 | 45 |
| 1975 | — | #1,884 | 25 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,886 | 24 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Keegan! It came in at #3,244, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1968, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Keegan is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Hampshire#147 · 1 in 466
- Hawaii#241 · 1 in 685
- Indiana#271 · 1 in 1,130
- South Carolina#280 · 1 in 1,125
- Massachusetts#285 · 1 in 1,426
Best ever in a state: #61 in Vermont, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | #147 | 10 | 1 in 466 |
| Hawaii | #241 | 5 | 1 in 685 |
| Indiana | #271 | 29 | 1 in 1,130 |
| South Carolina | #280 | 18 | 1 in 1,125 |
| Massachusetts | #285 | 20 | 1 in 1,426 |
| West Virginia | #292 | 6 | 1 in 1,170 |
| Kansas | #295 | 12 | 1 in 1,151 |
| Wisconsin | #314 | 18 | 1 in 1,351 |
| Missouri | #315 | 21 | 1 in 1,359 |
| Pennsylvania | #340 | 33 | 1 in 1,680 |
| Mississippi | #348 | 9 | 1 in 1,332 |
| Ohio | #349 | 32 | 1 in 1,694 |
| Connecticut | #359 | 8 | 1 in 1,747 |
| Michigan | #363 | 24 | 1 in 1,790 |
| Minnesota | #377 | 15 | 1 in 1,676 |
| Nebraska | #377 | 6 | 1 in 1,482 |
| Iowa | #387 | 9 | 1 in 1,562 |
| Alabama | #389 | 13 | 1 in 1,694 |
| Oklahoma | #398 | 11 | 1 in 1,632 |
| Maryland | #402 | 13 | 1 in 1,919 |
| Arkansas | #403 | 8 | 1 in 1,625 |
| North Carolina | #413 | 25 | 1 in 2,041 |
| Illinois | #419 | 26 | 1 in 2,073 |
| Virginia | #450 | 17 | 1 in 2,300 |
| Georgia | #492 | 20 | 1 in 2,518 |
| New York | #533 | 29 | 1 in 3,074 |
| Washington | #546 | 12 | 1 in 2,783 |
| Arizona | #558 | 11 | 1 in 2,966 |
| Louisiana | #581 | 8 | 1 in 2,717 |
| Tennessee | #629 | 10 | 1 in 3,584 |
| Kentucky | #656 | 5 | 1 in 3,970 |
| Florida | #697 | 21 | 1 in 4,417 |
| Colorado | #724 | 6 | 1 in 4,304 |
| Texas | #735 | 35 | 1 in 4,889 |
| California | #1,006 | 22 | 1 in 8,608 |
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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 Keegan
- 28 spots since 2024 (#593 → #621)
- 125 spots since 2020 (#496 → #621)
- 347 spots since 2015 (#274 → #621)
- Biggest jump: 135 spots in 1980 (#976 → #841)
- Biggest drop: 92 spots in 1986 (#610 → #702)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2007 at #222 (1,707 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 47 yrs · run 1979–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,212 boys born in 2008 were named Keegan (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,804 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #222 in 2007, was only 1 in 1,216 (0.08%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.5% of all boys named Keegan (14,057) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14 | #3,244 (1965) | #3,420 |
| 1970s | 328 | #976 (1979) | #2,224 |
| 1980s | 1,721 | #528 (1989) | #713 |
| 1990s | 6,591 | #300 (1999) | #385 |
| 2000s | 14,057 | #222 (2007) | #247 |
| 2010s | 12,718 | #238 (2014) | #288 |
| 2020s | 3,090 | #492 (2021) | #566 |
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.
Keegan in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 22,790 of them was named Keegan, which outranked 86.1% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,440Samarah73
- #2,440Shaylee73
- #2,440Vanellope73
- #2,460Keegan72
- #2,460Adella72
- #2,460Ahuva72
- #2,460Aiyla72
- #2,484Aarohi71
- #2,484Abbigail71
- #2,484Aislyn71
Tied with 23 names at #2,460; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 2,921 of them was named Keegan, which outranked 96.5% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.