Keighan
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keighan has been given to 189 babies in the U.S. since 2006. 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 2014, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% boys, 18% girls all-time.
Babies named Keighan, 2019
1 in 434,000
Keighan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Keighan over time
In 2019, Keighan 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 Keighan?
Keighan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 434,000
- 8 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 224,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 300,847 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keighan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 300,847 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keighan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keighans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keighan was born before 2013 — so the typical Keighan is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 74.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 155
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 74.2% of all recorded uses (115).
Is Keighan 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
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- 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 2014 (18)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.7% average annual change
Spellings of Keighan
Keighan is not the most common spelling — Keegan is, with 56.2% against Keighan's 0.23%.
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.
Keighan around the world
Where Keighan 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 & Wales2001–2001#2,587in 2001
- Scotland2011–2017#733in 2017
- Canada2000–2001#2,057in 2001
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.
Keighan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Keighan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keighan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.