Keeton
Keeton was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,641 among boys’ names; 924 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keeton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keeton?
#6,641 among boys’ names, 2025
Keeton fell from #3,937 in 2015 to #6,641 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 7.6 per million.
43 babies in 2007, the peak
Keeton peaked in 2007, when 43 boys were given it, #2,784 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,641 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,410 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,522 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,323 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,518 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,946 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,964 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,295 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,662 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,045 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,937 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,571 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,619 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,081 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,476 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 38 | #3,051 | 19.8 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,298 | 17.1 |
| 2008 | 39 | #3,042 | 19.1 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,784 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,566 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,733 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,186 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,963 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,847 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,025 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,596 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,981 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,054 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,302 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,871 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,768 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,825 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,863 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,446 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,735 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,602 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,163 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,605 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,541 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,457 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,711 | 4.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,788 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,551 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keeton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keeton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keeton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keeton, and how old are they?
An estimated 907 Americans named Keeton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 915 people named Keeton (73 women and girls, 842 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 844 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 26,298 babies since 1880, Keeton is the second most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 442 babies (2.9%), again the second 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 Keeton
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 Keeton and names like it
- Compare Keeton and KeatonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeeton peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keeton since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Keeton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keeton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.