Keyan
Keyan was given to 32 boys in 2025, #3,556 among boys’ names; 1,389 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,360 Americans named Keyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keyan?
#3,556 among boys’ names, 2025
Keyan fell from #2,626 in 2015 to #3,556 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.5 to 18.7 per million.
63 babies in 2007, the peak
Keyan peaked in 2007, when 63 boys were given it, #2,152 among boys’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #3,556 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 31 | #3,651 | 18.0 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,671 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,249 | 21.2 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,272 | 20.6 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,377 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,397 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,135 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 49 | #2,581 | 26.5 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,037 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,626 | 24.5 |
| 2014 | 49 | #2,525 | 25.5 |
| 2013 | 40 | #2,870 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,741 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,567 | 25.3 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,531 | 25.5 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,606 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 50 | #2,531 | 24.5 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,152 | 30.4 |
| 2006 | 46 | #2,605 | 22.4 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,345 | 25.0 |
| 2004 | 49 | #2,326 | 24.7 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,405 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 41 | #2,450 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 37 | #2,591 | 19.0 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,701 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,149 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,110 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,373 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 36 | #2,274 | 19.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,493 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 30 | #2,532 | 15.5 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,927 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,159 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,544 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,530 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,609 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,012 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,114 | 5.9 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,210 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,389 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,759 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,892 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,336 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,570 | 2.9 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,380 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Keyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keyan has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 47 years of records.
Girls and boys named Keyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keyan, and how old are they?
1,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,389 Americans ever recorded as Keyan. The median Keyan alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,168 people named Keyan (81 women and girls, 1,087 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,180 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 24 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 207 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 642 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 491 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 83,950 babies since 1880, Keyan is the eighth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 635 babies (5.0%), the seventh 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 Keyan
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 Keyan and names like it
- Compare Keyan and KenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKeyan peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keyan since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Keyan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keyan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.