Keegan
#3,249 for girls in 2025, 48 births · #621 for boys in 2025, 449 births
Given to boys 91.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 1,707 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 38,519since 1965
Keegan 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 | #3,249 | 48 | #621 | 449 |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | #593 | 484 |
| 2023 | #2,674 | 65 | #627 | 443 |
| 2022 | #2,956 | 56 | #566 | 523 |
| 2021 | #2,460 | 72 | #492 | 599 |
| 2020 | #2,468 | 70 | #496 | 592 |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 | #425 | 723 |
| 2018 | #2,145 | 88 | #353 | 940 |
| 2017 | #1,721 | 123 | #309 | 1,124 |
| 2016 | #1,815 | 114 | #283 | 1,295 |
| 2015 | #1,643 | 130 | #274 | 1,346 |
| 2014 | #1,746 | 119 | #238 | 1,560 |
| 2013 | #1,529 | 143 | #249 | 1,458 |
| 2012 | #1,791 | 114 | #245 | 1,472 |
| 2011 | #1,646 | 130 | #253 | 1,370 |
| 2010 | #1,621 | 133 | #246 | 1,430 |
| 2009 | #1,710 | 129 | #228 | 1,597 |
| 2008 | #1,468 | 160 | #223 | 1,683 |
| 2007 | #1,340 | 181 | #222 | 1,707 |
| 2006 | #1,682 | 125 | #227 | 1,594 |
| 2005 | #1,790 | 109 | #242 | 1,390 |
| 2004 | #1,643 | 118 | #257 | 1,293 |
| 2003 | #1,755 | 107 | #259 | 1,271 |
| 2002 | #1,606 | 115 | #253 | 1,284 |
| 2001 | #1,627 | 112 | #271 | 1,158 |
| 2000 | #1,504 | 122 | #285 | 1,080 |
| 1999 | #1,893 | 83 | #300 | 957 |
| 1998 | #1,899 | 80 | #305 | 928 |
| 1997 | #2,002 | 71 | #325 | 804 |
| 1996 | #1,840 | 79 | #329 | 799 |
| 1995 | #2,101 | 64 | #359 | 669 |
| 1994 | #2,209 | 60 | #385 | 606 |
| 1993 | #2,768 | 43 | #430 | 516 |
| 1992 | #2,687 | 45 | #453 | 485 |
| 1991 | #2,291 | 56 | #471 | 442 |
| 1990 | #2,850 | 40 | #497 | 385 |
| 1989 | #3,165 | 33 | #528 | 329 |
| 1988 | #2,700 | 39 | #647 | 214 |
| 1987 | #3,031 | 31 | #668 | 188 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 34 | #702 | 165 |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 | #610 | 205 |
| 1984 | #2,149 | 46 | #696 | 157 |
| 1983 | #2,236 | 43 | #777 | 126 |
| 1982 | #2,581 | 36 | #804 | 121 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | #858 | 106 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 | #841 | 110 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 | #976 | 82 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #1,060 | 67 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 | #1,289 | 48 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 | #1,320 | 45 |
| 1975 | — | #1,884 | 25 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,886 | 24 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,509 | 14 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Keegan! It came in at #3,244, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1968, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Keegan
- 28 spots since 2024 (#593 → #621)
- 125 spots since 2020 (#496 → #621)
- 347 spots since 2015 (#274 → #621)
- Biggest jump: 135 spots in 1980 (#976 → #841)
- Biggest drop: 92 spots in 1986 (#610 → #702)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2007 at #222 (1,707 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 47 yrs · run 1979–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,212 boys born in 2008 were named Keegan (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,804 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #222 in 2007, was only 1 in 1,216 (0.08%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.5% of all boys named Keegan (14,057) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 14 | #3,244 (1965) | #3,420 |
| 1970s | 328 | #976 (1979) | #2,224 |
| 1980s | 1,721 | #528 (1989) | #713 |
| 1990s | 6,591 | #300 (1999) | #385 |
| 2000s | 14,057 | #222 (2007) | #247 |
| 2010s | 12,718 | #238 (2014) | #288 |
| 2020s | 3,090 | #492 (2021) | #566 |
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.
Keegan in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 28,932 of them was named Keegan, which outranked 83.5% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,889Zaylie57
- #2,889Zipporah57
- #2,889Zulema57
- #2,930Keegan56
- #2,930Adaia56
- #2,930Alanii56
- #2,930Aleen56
- #2,976Austen55
- #2,976Avie55
- #2,976Ayvah55
Tied with 45 names at #2,930; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 3,560 of them was named Keegan, which outranked 95.9% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).