Keller
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births · #1,992 for boys in 2025, 76 births
Given to boys 88.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 171 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,702since 1911
Keller 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 | #6,838 | 16 | #1,992 | 76 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #1,589 | 108 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #1,640 | 105 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 | #1,815 | 89 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #1,841 | 84 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #1,478 | 115 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 | #1,468 | 118 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #1,565 | 107 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | #1,413 | 123 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #1,295 | 140 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | #1,168 | 159 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #1,117 | 171 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | #1,321 | 130 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #1,090 | 171 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #1,143 | 158 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #1,358 | 125 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #1,241 | 144 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #1,169 | 153 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #1,287 | 135 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | #1,097 | 160 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #1,123 | 146 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #1,235 | 122 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #1,451 | 90 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #1,744 | 66 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #1,935 | 56 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #1,875 | 56 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #2,263 | 40 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #2,126 | 43 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #1,964 | 46 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #2,254 | 36 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #2,253 | 35 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #3,215 | 21 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #2,295 | 33 |
| 1992 | — | #3,220 | 20 | |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #2,606 | 26 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,884 | 10 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
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| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
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| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
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| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | #2,848 | 9 | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | — | ||
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| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #2,646 | 8 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | #3,268 | 6 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
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| 1928 | — | #2,659 | 10 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
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| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,473 | 12 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | — | #3,368 | 7 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,271 | 9 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,740 | 5 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Keller! It came in at #1,740, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1920, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Keller
- 403 spots since 2024 (#1,589 → #1,992)
- 514 spots since 2020 (#1,478 → #1,992)
- 824 spots since 2015 (#1,168 → #1,992)
- Debuted 1911
- Peaked 2012 at #1,090 (171 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,093 boys born in 2012 were named Keller (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.9% of all boys named Keller (1,402) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1961, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 49 | #1,740 (1911) | #2,922 |
| 1920s | 47 | #2,473 (1924) | #3,401 |
| 1930s | 25 | #2,646 (1938) | #3,230 |
| 1940s | 26 | #2,802 (1949) | #3,119 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,329 (1950) | #3,329 |
| 1960s | 21 | #2,848 (1962) | #3,378 |
| 1970s | 32 | #3,282 (1970) | #4,813 |
| 1980s | 75 | #3,205 (1989) | #5,104 |
| 1990s | 314 | #1,964 (1997) | #2,617 |
| 2000s | 1,128 | #1,097 (2006) | #1,416 |
| 2010s | 1,402 | #1,090 (2012) | #1,294 |
| 2020s | 577 | #1,478 (2020) | #1,726 |
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.
Keller in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 79,922 of them was named Keller, which outranked 67.8% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,612Zoila22
- #5,612Zuria22
- #5,612Zurie22
- #5,798Keller21
- #5,798Adeena21
- #5,798Aeliana21
- #5,798Afia21
- #5,986Aara20
- #5,986Aaron20
- #5,986Adel20
Tied with 187 names at #5,798; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 15,205 of them was named Keller, which outranked 89.6% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).