Keeran

#12,991 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Keeran has been given to 70 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #12,991 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Keeran, 2025

1 in 663,000

Keeran over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Keeran?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,991
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keeran 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keeran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keerans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keeran was born before 2012 — so the typical Keeran is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
70
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Keeran 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
−1,311
Places dropped
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
62.5%
Peak was 2008 (8)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,442
2008

Spellings of Keeran

Keeran is not the most common spelling — Keegan is, with 25.2% against Keeran's 0.05%.

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.

Keeran around the world

Where Keeran 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
    1996–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1993–1993
    #334
    in 1993
  • France
    2003–2024
    #4,398
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1998–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Keeran by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,991
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,442
2008
Peak year
2008
8 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
70
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Keeran

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

Sibling names for Keeran

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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