Keelin — unisex name

What the Data Says About Keelin

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,040 babies named Keelin between 1956 and 2022, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Keelin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 61 babies received it in a single year. Keelin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 347 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Keelin performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 436 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Keelin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Keelin in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Keelin 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 1,040 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.