Keinan

#12,995 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Keinan has been given to 199 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #12,995 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Keinan, 2025

1 in 663,000

Keinan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Keinan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,995
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keinan 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keinan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keinans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keinan was born before 2007 — so the typical Keinan is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
199
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Choose a decade

2000s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Keinan 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
+128
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,219
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.5%
Peak was 2008 (13)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,876
1997

Spellings of Keinan

Keinan is not the most common spelling — Keegan is, with 24.0% against Keinan's 0.12%.

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.

Keinan around the world

Where Keinan 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
    1998–2006
    #4,052
    in 2006
  • France
    2009–2009
    #4,897
    in 2009
  • Canada
    2006–2006
    #2,447
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Keinan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,995
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 128
Best rank ever
#5,876
1997
Peak year
2008
13 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
199
Count in 2025
5

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Sibling names for Keinan

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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