Keifer
Keifer was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,360 among boys’ names; 1,155 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Keifer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 23 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keifer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keifer?
#11,360 among boys’ names, 2025
Keifer rose from #11,428 in 2015 to #11,360 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 3.5 per million.
131 babies in 1991, the peak
Keifer peaked in 1991, when 131 boys were given it, #922 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,360 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,267 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,403 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,542 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,494 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,428 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,302 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,464 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,602 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,091 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 21 | #4,606 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,110 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,471 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,433 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,158 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,391 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,985 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,882 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,224 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,272 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,772 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,899 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 49 | #1,970 | 25.6 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,113 | 22.3 |
| 1996 | 53 | #1,751 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 62 | #1,535 | 32.6 |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,274 | 43.5 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,367 | 36.2 |
| 1992 | 86 | #1,210 | 43.1 |
| 1991 | 131 | #922 | 64.8 |
| 1990 | 61 | #1,438 | 29.7 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,360 | 32.5 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,146 | 8.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,303 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,172 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keifer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keifer has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keifer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keifer, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,155 Americans ever recorded as Keifer. The median Keifer alive today is 31 years old; half are between 23 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,010 people named Keifer (21 women and girls, 989 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 605 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 435 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 66 |
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,634 babies since 1880, Keifer is the most given (71% of them).
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 Keifer
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 Keifer and names like it
- Compare Keifer and KeeferBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKeifer peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keifer since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Keifer.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Keifer alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.