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
- 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
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 | — | #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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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.
See more about Kegan
- 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)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1992 at #792 (175 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1989–1995
- 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
- 35.2% of all boys named Kegan (1,355) were born in this decade
- 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.
Kegan in 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
Top boys' names in 1992
More about 1992
girls
1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 122,929 of them was named Kegan, which outranked 61.5% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,718Ying16
- #5,718Yitty16
- #5,718Zarah16
- #6,008Kegan15
- #6,008Abriel15
- #6,008Ahna15
- #6,008Airelle15
- #6,314Aarti14
- #6,314Adella14
- #6,314Aireal14
Tied with 305 names at #6,008; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,409 boys got a published name in 1992; 1 in 11,414 of them was named Kegan, which outranked 91.9% of the 9,820 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).