Keanan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keanan has been given to 623 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 48 recorded.
Babies named Keanan, 2024
1 in 557,000
Keanan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Keanan?
Keanan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keanan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keanan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keanans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keanan was born before 2001 — so the typical Keanan is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 39.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 55.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 623
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 39.0% of all recorded uses (243).
Is Keanan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1997 (48)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.8% average annual change
Spellings of Keanan
Keanan is not the most common spelling — Keegan is, with 21.1% against Keanan's 0.34%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Keanan around the world
Where Keanan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2023#4,992in 2023
- France2002–2014#5,571in 2014
- Canada1991–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia1982–2000#556in 2000
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Keanan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keanan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keanan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.