Keene
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 1948 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 471since 1918
Keene over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Keene has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #3,652 | 6 |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,734 | 5 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,021 | 7 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,443 | 10 |
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| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | — | |
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| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,361 | 6 |
| 1931 | — | |
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| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,239 | 5 |
| 1922 | #3,872 | 6 |
| 1921 | — | |
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| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,179 | 5 |
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First appearance
1918
The first year at least five boys were named Keene! It came in at #4,179, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Keene is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Keene in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Keene
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 1,654 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #10,695)
- 1,956 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #10,695)
- 4,696 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1948 at #2,443 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1949, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 106,715
- Highest: 1 in 106,715 boys born in 2014 were named Keene (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,443 in 1948, was only 1 in 175,462 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 22.5% of all boys named Keene (106) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,179 (1918) | #4,179 |
| 1920s | 11 | #3,872 (1922) | #4,056 |
| 1930s | 12 | #3,147 (1936) | #3,254 |
| 1940s | 10 | #2,443 (1948) | #2,443 |
| 1950s | 30 | #3,021 (1950) | #3,509 |
| 1960s | 24 | #3,305 (1962) | #3,667 |
| 1970s | 32 | #2,891 (1970) | #4,020 |
| 1980s | 46 | #4,499 (1983) | #5,453 |
| 1990s | 83 | #3,636 (1991) | #6,819 |
| 2000s | 81 | #6,095 (2009) | #8,511 |
| 2010s | 106 | #5,066 (2014) | #7,838 |
| 2020s | 31 | #8,739 (2020) | #10,689 |
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.
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