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Keelan

#2,463 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Caolán

Keelan has been given to 3,942 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #2,463 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 135 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.

Babies named Keelan, 2025

1 in 60,300

Keelan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Keelan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19672025

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.

Keelan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Caolán

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keelan means

Keelan is a form of Caolán.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caolán.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,591 boys were recorded with the name Keelan between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 135 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,203 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,772 in 2020 to #2,463 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,313 in 2015 to #2,463 in 2025.

In the United States, 351 girls were recorded with the name Keelan between 1974 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2001; its best national rank was #5,696 in 2001.

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 Keelan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 60,300
55 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,463
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keelan 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 41,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keelan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keelans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keelan was born before 2008 — so the typical Keelan is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,591
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (1,174).

Is Keelan 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
−283
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−691
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,150
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.7%
Peak was 2014 (135)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,203
2000

Spellings of Keelan

Keelan is not the most common spelling — Declan is, with 24.2% against Keelan's 1.5%.

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 Keelan is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Keelan was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 24,625 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 4,762
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 7,143
  3. 3Georgia1 in 10,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 11,111
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 14,286
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 20,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 20,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 25,000

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.

Where Keelan is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Keelan was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Keelan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keelan around the world

Where Keelan 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
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2023
    #348
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    1980–2025
    #211
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2023
    #5,216
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Notable people named Keelan

People whose public names include Keelan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Keelan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,463
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 691
Best rank ever
#1,203
2000
Peak year
2014
135 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,591
Count in 2025
55

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,696
2001
Peak year
2001
20 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
351
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keelan

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

DyllanKeetonDaylanJaylanDeklanKeenanCaelanRaylanDillanArlanTylanTalanKaelanKeilanWaylanLochlanBrylanKeelinMarlanQuinlanKellanKeenenKeeganCallan

Names with a curve like Keelan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Keelan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DezmondJacobiMarshawnHusseinBrighamNeelKyronKhristianSaadKamranEamonGeovanni

Sibling names for Keelan

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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