Keaton — #843 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Keaton

The Social Security Administration has registered 21,749 babies named Keaton between 1925 and 2024, spanning 100 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Keaton currently holds the #843 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 881 babies received it in a single year. Keaton is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,331 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Keaton performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 7,746 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Keaton shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,071 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Indiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Keaton in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Keaton 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 21,749 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.