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 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#400 · 1 in 1,855
- Kentucky#642 · 1 in 4,186
- Tennessee#699 · 1 in 4,438
- Louisiana#701 · 1 in 3,808
- Alabama#738 · 1 in 4,524
Best ever in a state: #335 in Mississippi, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #400 | 7 | 1 in 1,855 |
| Kentucky | #642 | 5 | 1 in 4,186 |
| Tennessee | #699 | 8 | 1 in 4,438 |
| Louisiana | #701 | 6 | 1 in 3,808 |
| Alabama | #738 | 5 | 1 in 4,524 |
| Missouri | #858 | 5 | 1 in 6,069 |
| Georgia | #931 | 8 | 1 in 6,524 |
| Florida | #1,280 | 8 | 1 in 11,980 |
| Texas | #1,555 | 10 | 1 in 17,488 |
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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 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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 340,215 of them was named Keelan, which outranked 13.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,470 names at #15,682; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 17,297 of them was named Keelan, which outranked 88.8% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,576Merritt106
- #1,576Noam106
- #1,576Thor106
- #1,584Keelan105
- #1,584Brigham105
- #1,584Jaxyn105
- #1,584Khaled105
- #1,591Auden104
- #1,591Shaurya104
- #1,593Arnold103
Tied with 6 names at #1,584; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.