Keane
Keane was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,003 among boys’ names; 1,486 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Keane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keane?
#7,003 among boys’ names, 2025
Keane fell from #3,189 in 2015 to #7,003 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 7.0 per million.
60 babies in 2007, the peak
Keane peaked in 2007, when 60 boys were given it, #2,226 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,003 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,646 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,352 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,745 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,167 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,359 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,278 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,572 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,341 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,932 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,189 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,012 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,921 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,250 | 30.6 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,722 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,529 | 25.5 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,604 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,138 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,226 | 28.9 |
| 2006 | 40 | #2,855 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 35 | #2,985 | 17.5 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,247 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,073 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,506 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,585 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,851 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,642 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,053 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,518 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,057 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,421 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,276 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,744 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,495 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 31 | #2,314 | 15.3 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,735 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,723 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,280 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,193 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,545 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,388 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,369 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,753 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,202 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,628 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,406 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,696 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,302 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,114 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,377 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,794 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,445 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,890 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,484 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,326 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,677 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,618 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,520 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,406 | 4.0 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,890 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,450 | 3.5 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,517 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,807 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,734 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,774 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,207 | 2.4 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,951 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keane has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keane, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,486 Americans ever recorded as Keane. The median Keane alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,419 people named Keane (84 women and girls, 1,335 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,352 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 30 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 146 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 351 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 577 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 324 |
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 Keane born?
The states with the most babies named Keane are California, Hawaii and Texas, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 160 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Hawaii | 10 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Keane 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 71,828 babies since 1880, Keane is the sixth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 715 babies (1.7%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Keane
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 Keane and names like it
- Compare Keane and KennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeane peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keane since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Keane.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keane alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.