Keven
Keven was given to 15 boys in 2025, #6,003 among boys’ names; 8,882 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,020 Americans named Keven and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 23 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keven by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keven?
#6,003 among boys’ names, 2025
Keven fell from #2,509 in 2015 to #6,003 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.1 to 8.8 per million.
225 babies in 2003, the peak
Keven peaked in 2003, when 225 boys were given it, #776 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #6,003 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,337 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,798 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,326 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,665 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,533 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,561 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,479 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,041 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,195 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #2,509 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,189 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 84 | #1,745 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 90 | #1,693 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,480 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 163 | #1,140 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 156 | #1,164 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 176 | #1,067 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 201 | #979 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 210 | #916 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 191 | #923 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 181 | #936 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 225 | #776 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 198 | #838 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 188 | #854 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 199 | #809 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 186 | #821 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 185 | #813 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 166 | #852 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 158 | #869 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 153 | #882 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 187 | #768 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 139 | #912 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 143 | #883 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 146 | #868 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 114 | #986 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 108 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 107 | #924 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 112 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,030 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 96 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 97 | #888 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 94 | #915 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 88 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 82 | #1,006 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 85 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 96 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 123 | #764 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 132 | #744 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 106 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 78 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 90 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 111 | #762 | 0.07 |
| 1972 | 137 | #685 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 135 | #713 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 166 | #629 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 140 | #669 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 144 | #631 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 160 | #595 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 145 | #617 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 145 | #630 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 166 | #608 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 149 | #643 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 147 | #640 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 108 | #740 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 139 | #665 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 101 | #757 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 136 | #661 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 127 | #678 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 134 | #654 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 79 | #827 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 80 | #811 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,070 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,216 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 44 | #1,088 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,518 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 20 | #1,687 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,906 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,011 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,291 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,591 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,291 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keven a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,882 Americans recorded as Keven, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 15 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 Keven: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keven, and how old are they?
8,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 8,882 Americans ever recorded as Keven. The median Keven alive today is 35 years old; half are between 23 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 7,768 people named Keven (170 women and girls, 7,598 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,159 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,220 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,760 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 457 |
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 Keven born?
The states with the most babies named Keven are California, Texas and New York, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,680 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 685 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 497 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 308 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 220 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 185 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 183 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 159 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Utah | 121 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 90 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Keven is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keven is most over-represented in California: since 1930 it was given 1.6 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 Keven 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 1,212,537 babies since 1880, Keven is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 1,716 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Keven
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 Keven and names like it
- Compare Keven and KevinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeven peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keven since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Keven.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keven alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.