Keeghan
#11,358 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keeghan has been given to 444 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #11,358 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 30 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 81% boys, 19% girls all-time.
Babies named Keeghan, 2025
1 in 553,000
Keeghan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Keeghan over time
In 2025, Keeghan went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Keeghan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,358
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keeghan sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keeghan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keeghans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keeghan was born before 2008 — so the typical Keeghan is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 81.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 360
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (183).
Is Keeghan 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
- −3,584
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.60×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.0%
- Peak was 2008 (30)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.6% average annual change
Spellings of Keeghan
Keeghan is not the most common spelling — Keegan is, with 47.5% against Keeghan's 0.44%.
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.
Keeghan around the world
Where Keeghan 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 & Wales2019–2019#4,702in 2019
- Canada1993–2010#2,676in 2010
- South Australia1996–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Keeghan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Keeghan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keeghan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.