Kean
Kean was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,951 among boys’ names; 997 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kean by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kean?
#7,951 among boys’ names, 2025
Kean fell from #4,231 in 2015 to #7,951 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 5.9 per million.
31 babies in 2007, the peak
Kean peaked in 2007, when 31 boys were given it, #3,477 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,951 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,550 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,569 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,322 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,232 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,839 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,255 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,539 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,397 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,403 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,231 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,847 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,073 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 29 | #3,664 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,434 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,604 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,875 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,604 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 31 | #3,477 | 14.9 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,048 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,875 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,409 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,711 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,400 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,037 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,997 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,237 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,780 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,301 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,870 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,054 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,168 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,572 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,221 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,937 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,836 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,384 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,310 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,210 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,665 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,455 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,272 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,752 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,093 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,737 | 6.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,790 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,010 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,681 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,290 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,720 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,401 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,719 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,263 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,380 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,697 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,485 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,957 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,948 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,376 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,212 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,734 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,231 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,434 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,732 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,262 | 6.3 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,168 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,008 | 2.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,682 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kean has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kean: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kean, and how old are they?
An estimated 937 Americans named Kean and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,111 people named Kean (104 women and girls, 1,007 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 867 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Kean rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 76,783 babies since 1880, Kean is the eighth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 615 babies (1.6%), again the eighth 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 Kean
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 Kean and names like it
- Compare Kean and KenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKean peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kean since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Kean.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kean alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.