Keifer
#11,360 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keifer has been given to 1,155 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #11,360 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 131 recorded.
Babies named Keifer, 2025
1 in 553,000
Keifer 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Keifer?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,360
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keifer 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keifer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keifers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keifer was born before 1995 — so the typical Keifer is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 57.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,155
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 57.8% of all recorded uses (668).
Is Keifer 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
- −2,957
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +68
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 4.6%
- Peak was 1991 (131)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.4% average annual change
Spellings of Keifer
Keifer is not the most common spelling — Kaiser is, with 22.4% against Keifer's 6.6%.
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 Keifer is used
Across 1910–2025, Keifer was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 387,909 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (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. Keifer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keifer around the world
Where Keifer 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 & Wales1996–2012#4,805in 2012
- Ireland1991–1991#288in 1991
- Canada1991–2012#1,818in 2012
- South Australia1991–2002#606in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Keifer by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Keifer
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keifer
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.