Keen — boys' name

What the Data Says About Keen

The Social Security Administration has registered 186 babies named Keen between 1998 and 2023, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Keen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 14 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Keen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Keen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Keen 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 186 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.