Keelyn
#11,413 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keelyn has been given to 1,162 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #11,413 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 70 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% girls, 26% boys all-time.
Babies named Keelyn, 2025
1 in 414,000
Keelyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Keelyn over time
In 2025, Keelyn 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 Keelyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,413
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keelyn 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keelyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keelyn was born before 2009 — so the typical Keelyn is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 39.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 865
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (344).
Is Keelyn 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
- −730
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,927
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,665
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.35×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 11.4%
- Peak was 2010 (70)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.2% average annual change
Spellings of Keelyn
Keelyn is not the most common spelling — Evelyn is, with 43.9% against Keelyn's 0.06%.
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 Keelyn is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Keelyn was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 972,210 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 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. Keelyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Keelyn is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Keelyn was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,059,296 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Keelyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keelyn around the world
Where Keelyn 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.
- Ireland2003–2015#751in 2015
- Canada1996–2015#3,185in 2015
- South Australia1997–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Keelyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Keelyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keelyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.