Keary
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keary has been given to 684 babies in the U.S. since 1949. 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 1974, with 33 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% boys, 15% girls all-time.
Babies named Keary, 1999
1 in 615,000
Keary 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Keary over time
In 2004, Keary went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Keary?
Keary had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1999
- 1 in 615,000
- 6 of 3,692,373 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 320,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1999
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 426,561 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keary sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 426,561 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keary. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kearys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keary was born before 1972 — so the typical Keary is around 53 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 40.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 39.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 564
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (234).
Is Keary 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1974 (33)
- Years since peak
- 51
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.7% average annual change
Spellings of Keary
Keary is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 25.8% against Keary's 0.02%.
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 Keary is used
Across 1910–2025, Keary was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,069,616 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 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. Keary has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keary by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Keary
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keary
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.