Keller
- #6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- #1,992 for boys in 2025, 76 births
- Given to boys 88.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 171 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,702since 1911
Keller over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 | #1,992 | 76 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #1,589 | 108 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #1,640 | 105 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #1,815 | 89 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #1,841 | 84 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #1,478 | 115 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 | #1,468 | 118 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #1,565 | 107 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | #1,413 | 123 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #1,295 | 140 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | #1,168 | 159 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #1,117 | 171 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | #1,321 | 130 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #1,090 | 171 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #1,143 | 158 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #1,358 | 125 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #1,241 | 144 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #1,169 | 153 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,287 | 135 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | #1,097 | 160 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #1,123 | 146 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #1,235 | 122 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #1,451 | 90 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #1,744 | 66 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #1,935 | 56 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #1,875 | 56 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #2,263 | 40 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #2,126 | 43 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #1,964 | 46 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #2,254 | 36 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #2,253 | 35 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #3,215 | 21 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #2,295 | 33 |
| 1992 | — | #3,220 | 20 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #2,606 | 26 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #3,282 | 9 |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
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| 1962 | — | #2,848 | 9 | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #2,646 | 8 | |
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| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
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| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
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| 1928 | — | #2,659 | 10 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,473 | 12 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
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| 1918 | — | #3,368 | 7 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,271 | 9 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,740 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1911
The first year at least five boys were named Keller! It came in at #1,740, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1920, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Keller is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #591 | 7 | 1 in 2,733 |
| Missouri | #869 | 5 | 1 in 5,562 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arizona | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
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| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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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 Keller
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 514 spots since 2020 (#1,478 → #1,992)
Rise & fade · boys
101 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1911
- Peaked 2012 at #1,090 (171 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 9 yrs 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 11,093
- Highest: 1 in 11,093 boys born in 2012 were named Keller (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 37.9% of all boys named Keller (1,402) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1962
- Mostly girls until 1961, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 49 | #1,740 (1911) | #2,922 |
| 1920s | 47 | #2,473 (1924) | #3,401 |
| 1930s | 25 | #2,646 (1938) | #3,230 |
| 1940s | 26 | #2,802 (1949) | #3,119 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,329 (1950) | #3,329 |
| 1960s | 21 | #2,848 (1962) | #3,378 |
| 1970s | 32 | #3,282 (1970) | #4,813 |
| 1980s | 75 | #3,205 (1989) | #5,104 |
| 1990s | 314 | #1,964 (1997) | #2,617 |
| 2000s | 1,128 | #1,097 (2006) | #1,416 |
| 2010s | 1,402 | #1,090 (2012) | #1,294 |
| 2020s | 577 | #1,478 (2020) | #1,726 |
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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