Keenen
Keenen was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 1,181 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Keenen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 25 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keenen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keenen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,614, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
134 babies in 1991, the peak
Keenen peaked in 1991, when 134 boys were given it, #903 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #11,614 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,266 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,539 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,237 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,661 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,386 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,168 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,224 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,532 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,851 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | #5,825 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,903 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,640 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,927 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,577 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,944 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,933 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,586 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,522 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,119 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,278 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,367 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,910 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 85 | #1,374 | 44.5 |
| 1997 | 119 | #1,066 | 63.1 |
| 1996 | 47 | #1,919 | 24.8 |
| 1995 | 58 | #1,589 | 30.5 |
| 1994 | 50 | #1,755 | 25.9 |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,294 | 39.3 |
| 1992 | 98 | #1,109 | 49.1 |
| 1991 | 134 | #903 | 66.3 |
| 1990 | 114 | #985 | 55.5 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,401 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,050 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,540 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,331 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,456 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,874 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,039 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keenen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keenen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keenen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keenen, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,181 Americans ever recorded as Keenen. The median Keenen alive today is 30 years old; half are between 25 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 879 people named Keenen (6 women and girls, 873 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,142 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 601 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 449 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 89 |
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 29,433 babies since 1880, Keenen is the fifth most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 361 babies recorded by SSA was a Keenen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Keenen
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 Keenen and names like it
- Compare Keenen and KeenanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKeenen peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keenen since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Keenen.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Keenen alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.