Kegan
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #15,902 · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to boys 94.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1992 · 175 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,848since 1970
Kegan over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | — | #5,608 | 16 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,321 | 24 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,927 | 15 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,089 | 26 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,110 | 18 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,344 | 33 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,571 | 31 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,748 | 44 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | — | #2,551 | 49 | |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #2,328 | 56 |
| 2014 | — | #2,138 | 64 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,763 | 82 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #1,799 | 82 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #1,331 | 127 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #1,481 | 110 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #1,425 | 118 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #1,389 | 122 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #1,139 | 157 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,249 | 134 |
| 2005 | — | #1,514 | 94 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,251 | 120 | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #1,319 | 105 |
| 2002 | — | #1,052 | 145 | |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #1,307 | 100 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #1,214 | 111 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | #1,329 | 90 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #1,060 | 126 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #1,096 | 115 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #1,079 | 112 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #949 | 137 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #902 | 146 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #801 | 174 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | #792 | 175 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #833 | 154 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #914 | 126 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #898 | 127 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #1,047 | 89 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | #996 | 91 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #1,269 | 58 |
| 1985 | — | #3,599 | 12 | |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | — | #2,912 | 15 | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | — | #3,030 | 14 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1970
The first year at least five boys were named Kegan! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,287 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #5,608)
- 2,264 spots since 2020 (#3,344 → #5,608)
- 3,280 spots since 2015 (#2,328 → #5,608)
- Biggest jump: 273 spots in 1987 (#1,269 → #996)
- Biggest drop: 130 spots in 1996 (#949 → #1,079)
Rise & fade · boys
22 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1992 at #792 (175 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 20 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 8 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1989–1995
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,272
- Highest: 1 in 11,272 boys born in 1993 were named Kegan (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #792 in 1992, was only 1 in 11,414 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 35.2% of all boys named Kegan (1,355) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 40 | #3,810 (1979) | #4,638 |
| 1980s | 435 | #898 (1989) | #2,646 |
| 1990s | 1,355 | #792 (1992) | #976 |
| 2000s | 1,206 | #1,052 (2002) | #1,286 |
| 2010s | 680 | #1,331 (2011) | #2,296 |
| 2020s | 132 | #3,344 (2020) | #4,733 |
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.
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