Keanan
Keanan was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 623 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keanan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keanan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,676, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1997, the peak
Keanan peaked in 1997, when 48 boys were given it, #1,919 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,676 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,357 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,514 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,114 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,598 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,216 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,496 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,191 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,772 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,298 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #8,459 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,305 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,558 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,610 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,974 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,818 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,297 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,778 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,156 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,894 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,716 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,607 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,785 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,251 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,229 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,052 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 48 | #1,919 | 25.5 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,157 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,721 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,824 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,195 | 10.7 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,772 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,732 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,870 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,927 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,005 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,168 | 3.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,782 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,344 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keanan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keanan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keanan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keanan, and how old are they?
An estimated 609 Americans named Keanan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 30. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 543 people named Keanan (18 women and girls, 525 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 586 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 30,482 babies since 1880, Keanan is the eighth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 403 babies recorded by SSA was a Keanan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Keanan
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 Keanan and names like it
- Compare Keanan and KeenanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKeanan peaked in 1997.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Keanan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keanan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.