Keegan
Keegan was given to 449 boys in 2025, #621 among boys’ names; 42,324 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 41,600 Americans named Keegan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keegan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Keegan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Keegan is “a male given name from Kalenjin.” Its etymology gives the sense “son of Aidan” (Aodhagáin).
Also “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.”
Borrowed from Irish Mac Aodhagáin (“son of Aidan”).
/ˈkiɡən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Keegan?
#621 among boys’ names, 2025
Keegan fell from #274 in 2015 to #621 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.70 to 0.26 per 1,000.
1,888 babies in 2007, the peak
Keegan peaked in 2007, when 1,888 babies were given it (1,707 boys, #222 among boys’ names). The 497 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 449 | #621 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 484 | #593 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 443 | #627 | 0.26 |
| 2022 | 523 | #566 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | 599 | #492 | 0.34 |
| 2020 | 592 | #496 | 0.34 |
| 2019 | 723 | #425 | 0.40 |
| 2018 | 940 | #353 | 0.52 |
| 2017 | 1,124 | #309 | 0.61 |
| 2016 | 1,295 | #283 | 0.68 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,346 | #274 | 0.70 |
| 2014 | 1,560 | #238 | 0.81 |
| 2013 | 1,458 | #249 | 0.77 |
| 2012 | 1,472 | #245 | 0.78 |
| 2011 | 1,370 | #253 | 0.72 |
| 2010 | 1,430 | #246 | 0.75 |
| 2009 | 1,597 | #228 | 0.81 |
| 2008 | 1,683 | #223 | 0.82 |
| 2007 | 1,707 | #222 | 0.82 |
| 2006 | 1,594 | #227 | 0.78 |
| 2005 | 1,390 | #242 | 0.70 |
| 2004 | 1,293 | #257 | 0.65 |
| 2003 | 1,271 | #259 | 0.64 |
| 2002 | 1,284 | #253 | 0.66 |
| 2001 | 1,158 | #271 | 0.60 |
| 2000 | 1,080 | #285 | 0.55 |
| 1999 | 957 | #300 | 0.50 |
| 1998 | 928 | #305 | 0.49 |
| 1997 | 804 | #326 | 0.43 |
| 1996 | 799 | #330 | 0.42 |
| 1995 | 669 | #359 | 0.35 |
| 1994 | 606 | #385 | 0.31 |
| 1993 | 516 | #431 | 0.26 |
| 1992 | 485 | #454 | 0.24 |
| 1991 | 442 | #471 | 0.22 |
| 1990 | 385 | #500 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 329 | #527 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 214 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 188 | #668 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 165 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 205 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 157 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 126 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 121 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 106 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 110 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 82 | #981 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 67 | #1,063 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 48 | #1,300 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,327 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,918 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 24 | #1,913 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,891 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,208 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,804 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,574 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,769 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,404 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keegan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 42,324 Americans recorded as Keegan, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 48 girls and 449 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Keegan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keegan, and how old are they?
41,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 42,324 Americans ever recorded as Keegan. The median Keegan alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 36,167 people named Keegan (3,227 women and girls, 32,940 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 38,512 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 469 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,960 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 22,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,600 |
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 Keegan born?
The states with the most babies named Keegan are Illinois, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 34 | #372 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #392 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 27 | #411 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 23 | #1,028 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #260 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 22 | #402 | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 22 | #485 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 21 | #738 | 0.6× |
| New York | 20 | #732 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 16 | #484 | 0.7× |
Where Keegan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keegan is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1965 it was given 2.3 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 Keegan 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 61,225 babies since 1880, Keegan is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 497 of their 688 babies (72%), 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 Keegan
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 Keegan and names like it
- Compare Keegan and KeaganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeegan peaked in 2007.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keegan since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Keegan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Keegan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keegan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.