Keeley
#1,561 for girls in 2025, 135 births · Last seen for boys in 2005 at #11,472
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 224 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,692since 1957
Keeley over time
Rank among girls' names. Keeley has never cracked the top 800 here.
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 | #1,561 | 135 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,568 | 135 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,524 | 140 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,710 | 122 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,085 | 91 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,498 | 43 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,130 | 51 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,302 | 79 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,236 | 84 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,287 | 83 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,937 | 104 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,493 | 149 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,347 | 173 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,432 | 159 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,273 | 187 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,133 | 216 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,079 | 236 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,062 | 246 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,041 | 253 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,204 | 201 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,325 | 166 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #1,324 | 161 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,160 | 186 | — | |
| 2002 | #986 | 223 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,126 | 187 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #994 | 213 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #979 | 211 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #1,018 | 195 | — | |
| 1997 | #899 | 224 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #1,155 | 157 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,576 | 96 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,744 | 84 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,538 | 101 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,370 | 121 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,517 | 102 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,410 | 112 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,479 | 98 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,439 | 96 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,433 | 91 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,346 | 97 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,691 | 68 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,604 | 69 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,770 | 60 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,922 | 55 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,158 | 47 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,981 | 53 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,187 | 45 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,125 | 44 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,381 | 37 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #2,881 | 25 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,497 | 30 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,830 | 24 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #2,903 | 23 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,955 | 23 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #2,705 | 26 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,585 | 26 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #2,296 | 28 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,066 | 17 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,592 | 13 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,839 | 19 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,951 | 33 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,379 | 13 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Keeley! It came in at #5,377, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Keeley is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#431 · 1 in 2,085
- Tennessee#472 · 1 in 3,062
- Kansas#496 · 1 in 2,624
- Oregon#525 · 1 in 2,719
- Colorado#606 · 1 in 3,295
Best ever in a state: #141 in Montana, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #431 | 8 | 1 in 2,085 |
| Tennessee | #472 | 10 | 1 in 3,062 |
| Kansas | #496 | 5 | 1 in 2,624 |
| Oregon | #525 | 6 | 1 in 2,719 |
| Colorado | #606 | 7 | 1 in 3,295 |
| North Carolina | #664 | 9 | 1 in 4,722 |
| Ohio | #743 | 10 | 1 in 6,154 |
| Arizona | #848 | 6 | 1 in 5,075 |
| Illinois | #860 | 11 | 1 in 6,348 |
| Washington | #865 | 5 | 1 in 5,843 |
| Texas | #891 | 23 | 1 in 6,401 |
| Georgia | #921 | 7 | 1 in 6,533 |
| Pennsylvania | #926 | 7 | 1 in 8,276 |
| Michigan | #935 | 7 | 1 in 7,328 |
| New York | #1,397 | 8 | 1 in 12,478 |
| California | #1,433 | 16 | 1 in 13,691 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Keeley
- 7 spots since 2024 (#1,568 → #1,561)
- 1,937 spots since 2020 (#3,498 → #1,561)
- 376 spots since 2015 (#1,937 → #1,561)
- Biggest jump: 256 spots in 1997 (#1,155 → #899)
- Biggest drop: 174 spots in 2003 (#986 → #1,160)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1997 at #899 (224 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1999–2000
- Highest: 1 in 7,599 girls born in 2007 were named Keeley (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,906 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #899 in 1997, was only 1 in 7,771 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.0% of all girls named Keeley (2,072) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 52 | #1,951 (1959) | #3,569 |
| 1960s | 174 | #2,296 (1968) | #3,173 |
| 1970s | 306 | #2,125 (1978) | #2,613 |
| 1980s | 734 | #1,346 (1986) | #1,682 |
| 1990s | 1,403 | #899 (1997) | #1,321 |
| 2000s | 2,072 | #986 (2002) | #1,130 |
| 2010s | 1,285 | #1,133 (2010) | #1,857 |
| 2020s | 666 | #1,524 (2023) | #1,991 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Keeley in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 8,407 of them was named Keeley, which outranked 94.2% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 320,025 of them was named Keeley, which outranked 25.1% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,874Zoren7
- #7,874Zuhayr7
- #7,874Zyshawn7
- #8,704Keeley6
- #8,704Aaditya6
- #8,704Aaronjames6
- #8,704Abba6
- #9,912Aadam5
- #9,912Aareon5
- #9,912Aaronjohn5
Tied with 1,207 names at #8,704; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.