Keelan
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #2,451 for boys in 2025, 55 births
Given to boys 91.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 113 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,591since 1967
Keelan 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 | — | #2,451 | 55 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,169 | 67 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #2,362 | 58 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #1,965 | 78 |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | #1,789 | 88 |
| 2020 | — | #1,766 | 86 | |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #1,420 | 123 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,584 | 105 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #1,644 | 96 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #1,548 | 107 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #1,307 | 135 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #1,306 | 135 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #1,420 | 117 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #1,458 | 113 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #1,459 | 112 |
| 2010 | #7,217 | 17 | #1,309 | 131 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 | #1,618 | 98 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #1,441 | 115 |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 | #1,299 | 134 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #1,512 | 100 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #1,691 | 79 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #1,857 | 66 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #1,364 | 99 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #1,529 | 81 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 | #1,345 | 96 |
| 2000 | #6,487 | 16 | #1,196 | 113 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #1,374 | 86 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #1,436 | 79 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | #1,310 | 87 |
| 1996 | — | #1,690 | 56 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #1,369 | 74 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #1,689 | 53 |
| 1993 | — | #1,875 | 44 | |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #1,750 | 48 |
| 1991 | — | #1,589 | 53 | |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #1,909 | 40 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #2,027 | 35 |
| 1988 | — | #1,989 | 32 | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #2,020 | 30 |
| 1986 | — | #2,684 | 19 | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | #2,504 | 20 |
| 1984 | — | #1,933 | 28 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,408 | 20 | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #2,059 | 26 |
| 1981 | — | #2,779 | 16 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,765 | 32 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,236 | 22 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,215 | 12 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,910 | 14 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,724 | 9 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,751 | 14 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,020 | 20 | |
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| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Keelan! It came in at #3,231, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Keelan
- 282 spots since 2024 (#2,169 → #2,451)
- 685 spots since 2020 (#1,766 → #2,451)
- 1,144 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #2,451)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2000 at #1,196 (113 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,198 boys born in 2015 were named Keelan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,056 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,196 in 2000, was only 1 in 17,381 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.7% of all boys named Keelan (1,174) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12 | #3,231 (1967) | #3,684 |
| 1970s | 114 | #2,020 (1972) | #3,160 |
| 1980s | 258 | #1,765 (1980) | #2,217 |
| 1990s | 620 | #1,310 (1997) | #1,599 |
| 2000s | 981 | #1,196 (2000) | #1,485 |
| 2010s | 1,174 | #1,306 (2014) | #1,446 |
| 2020s | 432 | #1,766 (2020) | #2,084 |
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.
Keelan in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 90,031 of them was named Keelan, which outranked 69.0% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,364Zandria21
- #5,364Zianna21
- #5,364Zoi21
- #5,570Keelan20
- #5,570Aanya20
- #5,570Abagale20
- #5,570Abbegail20
- #5,822Aalia19
- #5,822Aaliyha19
- #5,822Adena19
Tied with 251 names at #5,570; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 20,238 of them was named Keelan, which outranked 89.1% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,337Marlin97
- #1,337Mykel97
- #1,337Van97
- #1,345Keelan96
- #1,345Colson96
- #1,345Kain96
- #1,345Shmuel96
- #1,353Jaelen95
- #1,353Jerrod95
- #1,353Leandro95
Tied with 7 names at #1,345; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.