Keelan
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #2,451 for boys in 2025, 55 births
Given to boys 91.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 113 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,591since 1967
Keelan 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 | — | #2,451 | 55 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,169 | 67 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #2,362 | 58 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,965 | 78 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,789 | 88 |
| 2020 | — | #1,766 | 86 | |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #1,420 | 123 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,584 | 105 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #1,644 | 96 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,548 | 107 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #1,307 | 135 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #1,306 | 135 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #1,420 | 117 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #1,458 | 113 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #1,459 | 112 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #1,309 | 131 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 | #1,618 | 98 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #1,441 | 115 |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 | #1,299 | 134 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #1,512 | 100 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #1,691 | 79 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #1,857 | 66 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #1,364 | 99 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #1,529 | 81 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 | #1,345 | 96 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | #1,196 | 113 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #1,374 | 86 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #1,436 | 79 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | #1,310 | 87 |
| 1996 | — | #1,690 | 56 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #1,369 | 74 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,689 | 53 |
| 1993 | — | #1,875 | 44 | |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #1,750 | 48 |
| 1991 | — | #1,589 | 53 | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #1,909 | 40 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #2,027 | 35 |
| 1988 | — | #1,989 | 32 | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #2,020 | 30 |
| 1986 | — | #2,684 | 19 | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | #2,504 | 20 |
| 1984 | — | #1,933 | 28 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,408 | 20 | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #2,059 | 26 |
| 1981 | — | #2,779 | 16 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,765 | 32 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,236 | 22 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,215 | 12 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,910 | 14 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,751 | 14 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,020 | 20 | |
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| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Keelan! It came in at #3,231, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Keelan is popular in 1967
No state had 5 or more boys named Keelan in 1967, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Keelan
- 282 spots since 2024 (#2,169 → #2,451)
- 685 spots since 2020 (#1,766 → #2,451)
- 1,144 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #2,451)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2000 at #1,196 (113 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,198 boys born in 2015 were named Keelan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,056 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,196 in 2000, was only 1 in 17,381 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.7% of all boys named Keelan (1,174) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12 | #3,231 (1967) | #3,684 |
| 1970s | 114 | #2,020 (1972) | #3,160 |
| 1980s | 258 | #1,765 (1980) | #2,217 |
| 1990s | 620 | #1,310 (1997) | #1,599 |
| 2000s | 981 | #1,196 (2000) | #1,485 |
| 2010s | 1,174 | #1,306 (2014) | #1,446 |
| 2020s | 432 | #1,766 (2020) | #2,084 |
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.
Keelan in 1967
Top boys' names in 1967
More about 1967
boys
1,743,811 boys got a published name in 1967; 1 in 249,116 of them was named Keelan, which outranked 29.0% of the 4,551 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,985Zachariah8
- #2,985Zan8
- #2,985Zollie8
- #3,231Keelan7
- #3,231Abron7
- #3,231Adolpho7
- #3,231Ajay7
- #3,559Abran6
- #3,559Adams6
- #3,559Adriano6
Tied with 327 names at #3,231; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.