Keelan
Keelan was given to 55 boys in 2025, #2,463 among boys’ names; 3,942 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,860 Americans named Keelan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keelan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keelan?
#2,463 among boys’ names, 2025
Keelan fell from #1,313 in 2015 to #2,463 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 70.4 to 32.2 per million.
152 babies in 2007, the peak
Keelan peaked in 2007, when 152 babies were given it (134 boys, #1,301 among boys’ names). The 55 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #2,463 | 32.2 |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,180 | 38.9 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,373 | 33.9 |
| 2022 | 78 | #1,973 | 44.7 |
| 2021 | 88 | #1,797 | 50.3 |
| 2020 | 86 | #1,772 | 49.8 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,426 | 68.6 |
| 2018 | 105 | #1,586 | 57.8 |
| 2017 | 96 | #1,654 | 51.9 |
| 2016 | 107 | #1,551 | 56.4 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 135 | #1,313 | 70.4 |
| 2014 | 135 | #1,312 | 70.3 |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,423 | 61.9 |
| 2012 | 113 | #1,460 | 59.6 |
| 2011 | 112 | #1,462 | 59.0 |
| 2010 | 131 | #1,314 | 68.3 |
| 2009 | 98 | #1,618 | 49.4 |
| 2008 | 115 | #1,443 | 56.4 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,301 | 64.6 |
| 2006 | 100 | #1,516 | 48.7 |
| 2005 | 79 | #1,699 | 39.6 |
| 2004 | 66 | #1,865 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,368 | 50.1 |
| 2002 | 81 | #1,536 | 41.7 |
| 2001 | 96 | #1,343 | 49.4 |
| 2000 | 113 | #1,203 | 57.5 |
| 1999 | 86 | #1,375 | 44.8 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,437 | 41.3 |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,310 | 46.2 |
| 1996 | 56 | #1,696 | 29.6 |
| 1995 | 74 | #1,368 | 38.9 |
| 1994 | 53 | #1,696 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 44 | #1,879 | 22.4 |
| 1992 | 48 | #1,754 | 24.0 |
| 1991 | 53 | #1,595 | 26.2 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,916 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 35 | #2,041 | 17.5 |
| 1988 | 32 | #2,011 | 16.7 |
| 1987 | 30 | #2,030 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,730 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,552 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 28 | #1,954 | 15.5 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,458 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,085 | 14.3 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,833 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 32 | #1,788 | 17.9 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,277 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,303 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,978 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,863 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,832 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,705 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,811 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,051 | 12.3 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,678 | 4.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,434 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,408 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keelan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,942 Americans recorded as Keelan, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 55 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 Keelan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keelan, and how old are they?
3,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,942 Americans ever recorded as Keelan. The median Keelan alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 3,060 people named Keelan (360 women and girls, 2,700 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,458 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 147 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 622 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,320 |
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 Keelan born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,436 | 1.0× |
Where Keelan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keelan is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1967 it was given 1.5 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 Keelan 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 39,847 babies since 1880, Keelan is the third most given (9.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 612 babies (9.0%), again the third 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 Keelan
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 Keelan and names like it
- Compare Keelan and KellenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeelan peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keelan since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Keelan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keelan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.