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.
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 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 9,629 of them was named Keeley, which outranked 93.7% 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).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 388,576 of them was named Keeley, which outranked 14.2% 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).
Tied with 1,751 names at #10,556; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.