Keaghan — boys' name
304 babies named Keaghan in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Keaghan was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Keaghan in 2009 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Keaghan
The Social Security Administration has registered 304 babies named Keaghan between 1997 and 2020, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Keaghan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Keaghan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 95 additional births since 2000.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Keaghan performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 147 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Keaghan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Keaghan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Keaghan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 304 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Keaghan at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Keaghan popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1997
- Peak year (2009)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 24 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
304 total births across 24 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2009 with 27 births in a single year.
Keaghan popularity over time — girls
95 total births recorded since 2000 (Keaghan as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Keaghan accounts for 24% of total recorded use across both genders.
Keaghan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 147 births that decade — 48% of Keaghan's all-time total
Keaghan decade highlights
- Peak decade 147 births
- Runner-up 141 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Keaghan's strongest decade
147 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Keaghan by state
Where Keaghan concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 1.6% |
5 of 304 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.