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.
Where Keegan is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#227 · 1 in 770
- Massachusetts#259 · 1 in 1,175
- Connecticut#326 · 1 in 1,467
- Iowa#346 · 1 in 1,383
- Illinois#363 · 1 in 1,709
Best ever in a state: #61 in Vermont, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #227 | 8 | 1 in 770 |
| Massachusetts | #259 | 23 | 1 in 1,175 |
| Connecticut | #326 | 9 | 1 in 1,467 |
| Iowa | #346 | 10 | 1 in 1,383 |
| Illinois | #363 | 29 | 1 in 1,709 |
| Nebraska | #377 | 6 | 1 in 1,470 |
| Pennsylvania | #387 | 27 | 1 in 1,936 |
| Michigan | #393 | 22 | 1 in 1,827 |
| Wisconsin | #393 | 13 | 1 in 1,802 |
| North Carolina | #407 | 27 | 1 in 1,906 |
| Minnesota | #446 | 12 | 1 in 2,042 |
| Ohio | #470 | 22 | 1 in 2,388 |
| Virginia | #473 | 16 | 1 in 2,328 |
| South Carolina | #501 | 9 | 1 in 2,355 |
| Tennessee | #520 | 14 | 1 in 2,626 |
| Oregon | #529 | 6 | 1 in 2,510 |
| Colorado | #535 | 10 | 1 in 2,685 |
| Maryland | #571 | 8 | 1 in 2,862 |
| Indiana | #579 | 11 | 1 in 2,878 |
| Missouri | #597 | 9 | 1 in 3,090 |
| New Jersey | #607 | 11 | 1 in 3,615 |
| Alabama | #622 | 7 | 1 in 3,074 |
| Oklahoma | #698 | 5 | 1 in 3,536 |
| New York | #716 | 20 | 1 in 4,221 |
| Florida | #729 | 21 | 1 in 4,549 |
| Louisiana | #775 | 5 | 1 in 3,826 |
| Georgia | #792 | 11 | 1 in 4,566 |
| Arizona | #927 | 5 | 1 in 6,545 |
| Washington | #999 | 5 | 1 in 6,560 |
| Texas | #1,012 | 23 | 1 in 7,611 |
| California | #1,299 | 14 | 1 in 12,534 |
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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 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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 33,485 of them was named Keegan, which outranked 81.2% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #3,211Vivi49
- #3,211Whitlee49
- #3,211Yolanda49
- #3,249Keegan48
- #3,249Ahilany48
- #3,249Ailanni48
- #3,249Ainoha48
- #3,296Ainslee47
- #3,296Aleksandra47
- #3,296Aleyda47
Tied with 46 names at #3,249; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 3,804 of them was named Keegan, which outranked 95.5% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.