Keene
Keene was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,359 among boys’ names; 471 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keene?
#11,359 among boys’ names, 2025
Keene fell from #6,150 in 2015 to #11,359 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 3.5 per million.
18 babies in 2014, the peak
Keene peaked in 2014, when 18 boys were given it, #5,161 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,359 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,297 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,613 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,466 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,150 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,322 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,236 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,877 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,471 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,150 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 18 | #5,161 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,446 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,271 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,824 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,236 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,277 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,849 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,586 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,732 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,806 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,547 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,550 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,060 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,773 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,726 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,275 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,478 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,047 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,475 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,711 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,370 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,574 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,134 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,734 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,601 | 4.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,127 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,539 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,849 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,710 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,025 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,220 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,232 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,431 | 3.7 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,327 | 6.4 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,292 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,983 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,924 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,473 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,844 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,336 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,433 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,274 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,696 | 2.9 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,008 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,184 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,527 | 5.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,357 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,572 | 5.7 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,551 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,079 | 5.5 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,496 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keene has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keene, and how old are they?
An estimated 412 Americans named Keene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 13 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 472 people named Keene (41 women and girls, 431 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 394 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 71,689 babies since 1880, Keene is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 714 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Keene
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 Keene and names like it
- Compare Keene and KennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKeene peaked in 2014.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Keene.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keene alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.