Keilan
Keilan was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,480 among boys’ names; 1,368 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Keilan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keilan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keilan?
#3,480 among boys’ names, 2025
Keilan fell from #2,547 in 2015 to #3,480 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.6 to 19.3 per million.
68 babies in 2011, the peak
Keilan peaked in 2011, when 68 babies were given it (63 boys, #2,118 among boys’ names). The 33 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,480 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,560 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,033 | 24.0 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,032 | 23.5 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,954 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 47 | #2,674 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 49 | #2,642 | 27.3 |
| 2018 | 40 | #2,971 | 22.0 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,414 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,604 | 25.3 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,547 | 25.6 |
| 2014 | 55 | #2,357 | 28.6 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,381 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,698 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,118 | 33.2 |
| 2010 | 48 | #2,568 | 25.0 |
| 2009 | 60 | #2,216 | 30.2 |
| 2008 | 57 | #2,304 | 27.9 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,127 | 30.8 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,188 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,876 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,863 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,074 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,848 | 17.0 |
| 2001 | 38 | #2,543 | 19.6 |
| 2000 | 40 | #2,403 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,525 | 18.2 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,975 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,150 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,476 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,770 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,677 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,575 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,885 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,234 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,133 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,584 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,461 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,788 | 3.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,772 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,433 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,041 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keilan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,368 Americans recorded as Keilan, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 33 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 Keilan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keilan, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,368 Americans ever recorded as Keilan. The median Keilan alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,037 people named Keilan (119 women and girls, 918 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 106 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 684 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 544 |
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 Keilan born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,437 | 1.1× |
Where Keilan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keilan is most over-represented in Texas: since 1976 it was given 1.1 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 Keilan 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 39,847 babies since 1880, Keilan is the fifth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 612 babies (5.4%), again the fifth 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 Keilan
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 Keilan and names like it
- Compare Keilan and KellenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKeilan peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keilan since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Keilan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keilan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.