Ketan — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ketan

The Social Security Administration has registered 352 babies named Ketan between 1970 and 2017, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ketan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 20 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ketan performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 101 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ketan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 9 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ketan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ketan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 352 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.