Boys' name · since 1988
Keiffer
Keiffer has 164 recorded births since 1988 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1991 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 164
- total births
- 1988–2009
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 67%
- born in that decade
Keiffer is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 164 have been recorded since 1988.
Keiffer has 164 recorded births among boys since 1988, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1988 to 2009.
- 164 total births
- 1988–2009 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 67% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Keiffer's 164 recorded births place it above 69% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Keiffer's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Keiffer splits its recorded history at 1997: 38% of all births land in the more recent half, 62% in the earlier half, leaning more toward its earlier era than today's. The single quietest year was 1988 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1991 peak of 21 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Keiffer popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–2009
- Peak year (1991)
- 21
- Annual births at peak, across 22 years of records
Keiffer by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Keiffer's strongest decade.
110 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Keiffer births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 10
1980s
10 births
- 1990s
1990s
110 births
- 2000s
2000s
44 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 110 births (67% of all-time use).
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- Keiffer's usage has stayed within range of its 1990s decade-level peak (110 total births) through the 2000s (44) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1988–2009 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Keiffer: Baby Name Since 1988 - 164 Births, Peak 1991." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/keiffer. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Keiffer draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.