Keenan — #1213 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Keenan

The Social Security Administration has registered 18,025 babies named Keenan between 1942 and 2024, spanning 83 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Keenan currently holds the #1213 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 717 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Keenan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 5,987 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Keenan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,551 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Keenan in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Keenan 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 18,025 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.