Keian
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keian has been given to 363 babies in the U.S. since 1993. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Keian, 2024
1 in 478,000
Keian 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Keian?
Keian had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 246,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keian sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keians were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keian was born before 2010 — so the typical Keian is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 36.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 363
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (134).
Is Keian 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (28)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.0% average annual change
Spellings of Keian
Keian is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 27.0% against Keian's <0.01%.
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.
Keian around the world
Where Keian 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 & Wales1998–2023#4,992in 2023
- Scotland2013–2013#687in 2013
- Canada2005–2008#2,611in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Keian by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keian
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keian
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.