Kegan
Kegan was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,724 among boys’ names; 4,085 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,980 Americans named Kegan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kegan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kegan?
#5,724 among boys’ names, 2025
Kegan fell from #2,335 in 2015 to #5,724 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 29.2 to 9.4 per million.
190 babies in 1992, the peak
Kegan peaked in 1992, when 190 babies were given it (175 boys, #791 among boys’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,724 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,378 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,076 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,140 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,233 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,374 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,604 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,771 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,281 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 49 | #2,573 | 25.8 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #2,335 | 29.2 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,143 | 33.3 |
| 2013 | 82 | #1,775 | 43.3 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,805 | 43.2 |
| 2011 | 127 | #1,338 | 66.9 |
| 2010 | 110 | #1,489 | 57.3 |
| 2009 | 118 | #1,428 | 59.5 |
| 2008 | 122 | #1,396 | 59.8 |
| 2007 | 157 | #1,140 | 75.6 |
| 2006 | 134 | #1,251 | 65.2 |
| 2005 | 94 | #1,520 | 47.1 |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,262 | 60.5 |
| 2003 | 105 | #1,320 | 53.2 |
| 2002 | 145 | #1,054 | 74.7 |
| 2001 | 100 | #1,307 | 51.5 |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,215 | 56.5 |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,333 | 46.9 |
| 1998 | 126 | #1,058 | 65.9 |
| 1997 | 115 | #1,103 | 61.0 |
| 1996 | 112 | #1,082 | 59.1 |
| 1995 | 137 | #948 | 72.0 |
| 1994 | 146 | #901 | 75.6 |
| 1993 | 174 | #800 | 88.7 |
| 1992 | 175 | #791 | 87.6 |
| 1991 | 154 | #831 | 76.2 |
| 1990 | 126 | #913 | 61.3 |
| 1989 | 127 | #896 | 63.5 |
| 1988 | 89 | #1,051 | 46.5 |
| 1987 | 91 | #999 | 48.7 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,274 | 31.5 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,695 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,815 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 15 | #3,001 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,591 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,131 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,907 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,943 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,432 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,390 | 4.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,907 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,483 | 3.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,498 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kegan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,085 Americans recorded as Kegan, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kegan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kegan, and how old are they?
3,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,085 Americans ever recorded as Kegan. The median Kegan alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 3,653 people named Kegan (266 women and girls, 3,387 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,888 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 42 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,930 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 502 |
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).
Where are babies named Kegan born?
The states with the most babies named Kegan are Michigan, Texas and Indiana, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 238 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 229 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 214 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| California | 128 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 128 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 97 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 88 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 84 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 44 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 44 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Kegan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kegan is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1970 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kegan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,356 babies since 1880, Kegan is the third most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 662 babies (2.4%), again the third 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 Kegan
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 Kegan and names like it
- Compare Kegan and KeeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKegan peaked in 1992.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kegan since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Kegan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kegan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.