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Keighan

Girls 18% Boys 82% Recorded 2006-2019

Keighan was last recorded in 2019, when 8 babies were given it; 189 Americans have been recorded with it between 2006 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

No sourced meaning is on record for Keighan: Wiktionary has no entry for it as a given name.

Babies named Keighan each year, first recorded in 2006
Keighan, 2000-2025; highest in 2017.51015202000200520102015202020252017 peak: 20
Keighan, 2000-2025; highest in 2017.51015202000200520102015202020252017 peak: 20
Keighan, 2000-2025; highest in 2017.51015202000200520102015202020252017 peak: 20
Keighan, 2000-2025; highest in 2017.5101520200020252017 peak: 20

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Births of Keighan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

How popular is Keighan?

Unranked in 2025

Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,324, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.

20 babies in 2017, the peak

Keighan peaked in 2017, when 20 babies were given it (13 boys, #6,497 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.

Girls and boys named Keighan each year
Keighan: girls and boys given the name each year5101520200020052010201520202025BoysGirls
Keighan: girls and boys given the name each year5101520200020052010201520202025BoysGirls
Keighan: girls and boys given the name each year5101520200020052010201520202025BoysGirls
Keighan: girls and boys given the name each year510152020002025BoysGirls

Births by sex.

Keighan by year and sex
YearGirlsGirls’ rankBoysBoys’ rank
2019under 58#9,324
20187#13,1387#10,218
20177#13,39713#6,497
2016under 516#5,673
2015under 514#6,151
2014under 518#5,162
20136#15,58213#6,447
2012under 59#8,523
20115#18,1996#11,589
2010under 511#7,335
Every recorded year (14)
YearGirlsGirls’ rankBoysBoys’ rank
20099#11,9559#8,679
2008under 512#6,981
2007under 512#6,869
2006under 57#10,143

Download Keighan’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.

Is Keighan a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Of the 189 Americans recorded as Keighan, 18% are girls and 82% boys.

Share of girls among babies named Keighan, by year
Girls fill from the bottom, boys from the top.100%50%0%200020052010201520202025
Girls fill from the bottom, boys from the top.100%50%0%200020052010201520202025
Girls fill from the bottom, boys from the top.100%50%0%200020052010201520202025
Girls fill from the bottom, boys from the top.100%50%0%20002025

Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.

Girls and boys named Keighan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Keighan, and how old are they?

An estimated 187 Americans named Keighan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 10 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.

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.

Names spelled alike

Keighan is a less common spelling of Keigan: SSA has recorded 189 Keighan and 1,086 Keigan since 1880.

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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.

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