Keigan
#8,595 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keigan has been given to 1,086 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #8,595 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 67 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% boys, 14% girls all-time.
Babies named Keigan, 2025
1 in 368,000
Keigan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Keigan over time
In 2025, Keigan went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Keigan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,595
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keigan 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keigan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keigans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keigan was born before 2009 — so the typical Keigan is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 931
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (360).
Is Keigan 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
- +838
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,108
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,542
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.24×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 13.4%
- Peak was 2008 (67)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.8% average annual change
Spellings of Keigan
Keigan is not the most common spelling — Keegan is, with 22.0% against Keigan's 0.53%.
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 Keigan is used
Across 1910–2025, Keigan was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 542,432 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. Keigan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keigan around the world
Where Keigan 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 & Wales1997–2017#4,812in 2017
- Scotland2000–2017#602in 2017
- Canada1991–2014#2,672in 2014
- South Australia1990–2005#643in 2005
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.
Keigan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Keigan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keigan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.