Keaton
Keaton is given to both girls and boys: 86 girls and 333 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,164 among girls’ names and #771 among boys’, #1,332 among all names counting both); 23,505 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,100 Americans named Keaton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keaton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keaton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keaton is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “hedge, enclosure” (cae) and “farmstead, settlement” (toun).
A variant of Caton or Keeton, or a habitational name from Keaton in Ermington, Devon, possibly derived from Welsh cae (“hedge, enclosure”) + Middle English toun (“farmstead, settlement”).
/ˈkitən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keaton?
#771 among boys’ names, 2025
Keaton fell from #480 in 2015 to #771 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.33 to 0.19 per 1,000.
930 babies in 2007, the peak
Keaton peaked in 2007, when 930 babies were given it (881 boys, #358 among boys’ names). The 419 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 333 | #771 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 288 | #845 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 268 | #876 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 315 | #797 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 348 | #735 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 369 | #690 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 482 | #579 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 518 | #544 | 0.29 |
| 2017 | 477 | #572 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 548 | #535 | 0.29 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 623 | #480 | 0.33 |
| 2014 | 694 | #439 | 0.36 |
| 2013 | 701 | #421 | 0.37 |
| 2012 | 750 | #394 | 0.40 |
| 2011 | 814 | #365 | 0.43 |
| 2010 | 804 | #367 | 0.42 |
| 2009 | 802 | #379 | 0.40 |
| 2008 | 833 | #369 | 0.41 |
| 2007 | 881 | #358 | 0.42 |
| 2006 | 781 | #382 | 0.38 |
| 2005 | 808 | #366 | 0.40 |
| 2004 | 794 | #354 | 0.40 |
| 2003 | 735 | #363 | 0.37 |
| 2002 | 670 | #389 | 0.35 |
| 2001 | 682 | #383 | 0.35 |
| 2000 | 761 | #353 | 0.39 |
| 1999 | 737 | #354 | 0.38 |
| 1998 | 717 | #364 | 0.38 |
| 1997 | 675 | #366 | 0.36 |
| 1996 | 525 | #429 | 0.28 |
| 1995 | 516 | #445 | 0.27 |
| 1994 | 444 | #481 | 0.23 |
| 1993 | 378 | #524 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 374 | #522 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 303 | #583 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 283 | #591 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 225 | #664 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 163 | #740 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 135 | #799 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 131 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 109 | #870 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,080 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 47 | #1,367 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,240 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,963 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,084 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,718 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,042 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,727 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,168 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,121 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,013 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,671 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,092 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,345 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,580 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keaton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 23,505 Americans recorded as Keaton, 6% are girls and 94% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Keaton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keaton, and how old are they?
23,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 23,505 Americans ever recorded as Keaton. The median Keaton alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 19,688 people named Keaton (1,187 women and girls, 18,501 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21,168 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 117 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,830 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,360 |
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 Keaton born?
The states with the most babies named Keaton are Texas, Tennessee and Florida, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 36 | #865 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 24 | #465 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 24 | #829 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 23 | #582 | 0.7× |
| California | 20 | #1,058 | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 19 | #341 | 1.8× |
| Indiana | 12 | #565 | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 12 | #769 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 11 | #696 | 0.9× |
| West Virginia | 11 | #178 | 0.9× |
Where Keaton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keaton is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1925 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Keaton 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 26,298 babies since 1880, Keaton is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 419 of their 442 babies (95%), again the 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 Keaton
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 Keaton and names like it
- Compare Keaton and KeetonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeaton peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keaton since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Keaton: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Keaton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keaton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.