Kean — #5470 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kean

The Social Security Administration has registered 987 babies named Kean between 1944 and 2024, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kean currently holds the #5470 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 31 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kean performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 239 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Kean shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 47 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Kean in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kean 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 987 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.