Keelyn
Keelyn was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,413 among girls’ names; 1,162 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Keelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keelyn?
#11,413 among girls’ names, 2025
Keelyn fell from #5,748 in 2015 to #11,413 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 5.0 per million.
84 babies in 2010, the peak
Keelyn peaked in 2010, when 84 babies were given it (70 girls, #2,596 among girls’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,413 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,683 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,959 | 8 | #9,359 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 9 | #8,658 | |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,928 | 8 | #9,265 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,486 | 17 | #5,360 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,707 | 15 | #5,963 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,250 | 13 | #6,533 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,645 | 11 | #7,323 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,480 | 10 | #7,883 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,748 | 11 | #7,308 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,503 | 11 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,121 | 9 | #8,463 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,679 | 17 | #5,375 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,073 | 19 | #4,909 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,596 | 14 | #6,213 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,916 | 16 | #5,697 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,507 | 9 | #8,669 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,023 | 14 | #6,106 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,042 | 16 | #5,424 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,768 | 5 | #12,422 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,136 | 8 | #8,546 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,020 | 7 | #9,176 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,694 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,660 | 9 | #7,215 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,713 | 6 | #9,725 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,326 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,930 | 9 | #6,572 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,744 | 9 | #6,370 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,482 | 5 | #9,791 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,276 | 6 | #8,351 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,198 | 6 | #8,290 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,561 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,499 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,821 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,758 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,523 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,176 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,902 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,198 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,289 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,665 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,010 | under 5 |
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 Keelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,162 Americans recorded as Keelyn, 74% are girls and 26% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Keelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keelyn, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,162 Americans ever recorded as Keelyn. The median Keelyn alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,007 people named Keelyn (785 women and girls, 222 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,064 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 103 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 351 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,840 babies since 1880, Keelyn is the fifth most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 120 babies (6.7%), again the fifth 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 Keelyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1970-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Kerrington | 1,003 | |
| Briley | 7,950 | |
| Justyce | 3,170 |
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 Keelyn and names like it
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- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Keelyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keelyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.