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
- 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
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
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| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
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| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 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 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 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 | |
| 1920 | — | — | ||
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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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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 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Maryland#604 · 1 in 4,797
- Georgia#733 · 1 in 5,971
- Tennessee#771 · 1 in 7,368
- Texas#816 · 1 in 8,624
- Virginia#881 · 1 in 8,613
Best ever in a state: #529 in South Carolina, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #604 | 6 | 1 in 4,797 |
| Georgia | #733 | 10 | 1 in 5,971 |
| Tennessee | #771 | 5 | 1 in 7,368 |
| Texas | #816 | 21 | 1 in 8,624 |
| Virginia | #881 | 5 | 1 in 8,613 |
| Michigan | #915 | 6 | 1 in 9,122 |
| Ohio | #927 | 6 | 1 in 10,921 |
| Illinois | #1,135 | 6 | 1 in 12,858 |
| Florida | #1,234 | 7 | 1 in 14,143 |
| New York | #1,696 | 5 | 1 in 21,655 |
| California | #1,794 | 8 | 1 in 31,771 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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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
- 403 spots since 2024 (#1,589 → #1,992)
- 514 spots since 2020 (#1,478 → #1,992)
- 824 spots since 2015 (#1,168 → #1,992)
- Debuted 1911
- Peaked 2012 at #1,090 (171 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 37.9% of all boys named Keller (1,402) were born in this decade
- 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.
Keller in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 167,986 of them was named Keller, which outranked 50.8% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,883Zury12
- #8,883Zyaira12
- #8,883Zykiria12
- #9,452Keller11
- #9,452Aalia11
- #9,452Aalyssa11
- #9,452Aamori11
- #10,128Aaliayah10
- #10,128Aaminah10
- #10,128Aamirah10
Tied with 675 names at #9,452; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 13,680 of them was named Keller, which outranked 91.6% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,116Enoch147
- #1,116Ephraim147
- #1,116Trevion147
- #1,123Keller146
- #1,123Beckett146
- #1,123Mordechai146
- #1,123Raiden146
- #1,128Canyon145
- #1,128Eliel145
- #1,128Jai145
Tied with 4 names at #1,123; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.