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Kegan

#5,724 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Variant of Keegan

Kegan has been given to 4,085 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #5,724 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 175 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.

Babies named Kegan, 2025

1 in 207,000

Kegan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

19702025

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.

Kegan: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Keegan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kegan means

Kegan is a variant of Keegan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kegan → Keegan. The family’s meaning is “son of Aidan”, recorded in English with the source elements Aodhagáin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Keegan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,848 boys were recorded with the name Kegan between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 175 in 1992; its best national rank was #791 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,374 in 2020 to #5,724 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,335 in 2015 to #5,724 in 2025.

In the United States, 237 girls were recorded with the name Kegan between 1982 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1992; its best national rank was #5,430 in 1987.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kegan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,724
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kegan 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kegan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kegans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kegan was born before 2000 — so the typical Kegan is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,848
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (1,355).

Is Kegan 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
−1,346
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,350
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,389
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.1%
Peak was 1992 (175)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#791
1992

Spellings of Kegan

Kegan is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 41.7% against Kegan's 0.14%.

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 Kegan is used

Across 1910–2025, Kegan was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 80,271 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 20,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 25,000
  3. 3Idaho1 in 33,333
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 50,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 50,000
  8. 8Wyoming1 in 50,000

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. Kegan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kegan around the world

Where Kegan 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
    1996–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    2009–2015
    #686
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1992–2015
    #1,958
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1983–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kegan

People whose public names include Kegan, 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.

Kegan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,724
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,350
Best rank ever
#791
1992
Peak year
1992
175 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,848
Count in 2025
16

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,430
1987
Peak year
1992
15 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
237
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kegan

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

ReganTeganRoganBroganDeeganHoganHaganTeaganReaganKeaganTeeganSaganKaganEganDeganDeaganEaganKeiganDaeganMeganDaganTeiganNeganKeegan

Names with a curve like Kegan

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

TraeDeanthonyDamarcusDontrellDeseanJamarcusDeontaeRayshawnZakaryBrennonMarquezTavon

Sibling names for Kegan

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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