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Keane

#7,003 in 2025Boys' name

Irish surname transferred into given-name use

Keane has been given to 1,486 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #7,003 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Keane, 2025

1 in 276,000

Keane over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keane: meaning, origin, and history

Irish surname transferred into given-name use

Irish surname transfer

What Keane means

Keane is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Keane is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkin/ for Keane.

The naming story behind Keane

Keane is a given name adopted from Irish surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,486 boys were recorded with the name Keane between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,057 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,359 in 2020 to #7,003 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,189 in 2015 to #7,003 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Keane?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,003
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keane sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keane was born before 2003 — so the typical Keane is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,486
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Choose a decade

2010s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (380).

Is Keane 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
−357
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,644
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,814
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.0%
Peak was 2007 (60)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,057
1996

Spellings of Keane

Keane is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 26.4% against Keane's 0.09%.

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.

Where Keane is used

Across 1910–2025, Keane was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 281,458 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Keane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keane around the world

Where Keane 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2010
    #638
    in 2010
  • Northern Ireland
    2012–2012
    #403
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    1994–2021
    #755
    in 2021
  • France
    2000–2019
    #4,614
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1992–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1978–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Keane by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,003
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,644
Best rank ever
#2,057
1996
Peak year
2007
60 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,486
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Keane

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Keane

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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