Keeghan
Keeghan was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,358 among boys’ names; 444 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keeghan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keeghan?
#11,358 among boys’ names, 2025
Keeghan fell from #7,774 in 2015 to #11,358 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 3.5 per million.
37 babies in 2009, the peak
Keeghan peaked in 2009, when 37 babies were given it (29 boys, #3,685 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 6 | #11,358 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #11,478 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,738 | 6 | #11,496 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 11 | #7,322 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 10 | #7,882 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 10 | #7,774 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 11 | #7,299 | |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,580 | 16 | #5,531 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,919 | 14 | #6,156 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 12 | #6,809 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | #12,869 | 24 | #4,175 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,059 | 29 | #3,685 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 30 | #3,605 | |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,150 | 27 | #3,843 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,022 | 20 | #4,601 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 15 | #5,437 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,100 | 14 | #5,635 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,861 | 12 | #6,062 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 9 | #7,346 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 13 | #5,522 | |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,865 | 14 | #5,185 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 8 | #7,514 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 10 | #6,072 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,898 | 12 | #5,114 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #6,261 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #8,350 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #7,961 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Keeghan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 444 Americans recorded as Keeghan, 19% are girls and 81% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Keeghan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keeghan, and how old are they?
An estimated 438 Americans named Keeghan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 448 people named Keeghan (118 women and girls, 330 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above 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
Keeghan is a less common spelling of Keegan: SSA has recorded 444 Keeghan and 42,324 Keegan since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Keeghan
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.