Keagan
Keagan is given to both girls and boys: 29 girls and 105 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,702 among girls’ names and #1,614 among boys’, #2,906 among all names counting both); 10,541 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,400 Americans named Keagan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keagan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keagan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keagan is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Variant of Keegan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keagan?
#1,614 among boys’ names, 2025
Keagan fell from #794 in 2015 to #1,614 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.15 to 0.06 per 1,000.
658 babies in 2008, the peak
Keagan peaked in 2008, when 658 babies were given it (564 boys, #489 among boys’ names). The 134 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,702 | 105 | #1,614 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,077 | 105 | #1,626 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,694 | 104 | #1,657 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,848 | 128 | #1,431 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,711 | 122 | #1,475 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,873 | 169 | #1,150 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,910 | 178 | #1,109 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,224 | 234 | #919 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,594 | 250 | #870 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,924 | 258 | #869 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | #2,575 | 294 | #794 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,490 | 321 | #742 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,318 | 342 | #699 |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,439 | 437 | #585 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,571 | 440 | #568 |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,281 | 492 | #527 |
| 2009 | 96 | #2,109 | 522 | #515 |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,147 | 564 | #489 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,979 | 493 | #524 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,997 | 383 | #620 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,292 | 327 | #658 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,240 | 286 | #693 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,691 | 323 | #636 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,115 | 245 | #726 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,893 | 255 | #701 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,613 | 235 | #730 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,279 | 186 | #820 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,555 | 147 | #949 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,917 | 124 | #1,032 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,388 | 126 | #989 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,112 | 103 | #1,125 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,127 | 87 | #1,247 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,319 | 72 | #1,346 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,046 | 76 | #1,292 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,164 | 51 | #1,630 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,569 | 42 | #1,854 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,520 | 37 | #1,967 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,757 | 26 | #2,328 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,661 | 14 | #3,430 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,987 | 15 | #3,204 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 12 | #3,692 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,598 | 8 | #4,774 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,571 | 7 | #5,205 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,155 | 5 | #6,872 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 9 | #4,340 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,145 | 9 | #4,322 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 9 | #4,233 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,869 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Keagan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,541 Americans recorded as Keagan, 17% are girls and 83% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Keagan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keagan, and how old are they?
10,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,541 Americans ever recorded as Keagan. The median Keagan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 8,764 people named Keagan (1,464 women and girls, 7,300 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,556 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 28 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 829 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,320 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,220 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Keagan born?
The states with the most babies named Keagan are Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,610 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #976 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,161 | 0.6× |
| California | 6 | #2,342 | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #840 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,176 | 0.9× |
Where Keagan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keagan is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1977 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Keagan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,356 babies since 1880, Keagan is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 134 of their 662 babies (20%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keagan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Keagan and names like it
- Compare Keagan and KeeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeagan peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keagan since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Keagan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Keagan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keagan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.