Keiren
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keiren has been given to 98 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2021, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.
Babies named Keiren, 2024
1 in 418,000
Keiren 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Keiren over time
In 2024, Keiren 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 Keiren?
Keiren 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 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 215,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keiren 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keiren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keirens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keiren was born before 2015 — so the typical Keiren is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 93
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (36).
Is Keiren 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 2021 (11)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.7% average annual change
Spellings of Keiren
Keiren is not the most common spelling — Kaiden is, with 39.3% against Keiren's 0.07%.
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.
Keiren around the world
Where Keiren 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 & Wales1996–2014#4,632in 2014
- Scotland1994–2009#483in 2009
- Canada2008–2010#2,386in 2010
- South Australia1971–2008#726in 2008
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.
Keiren by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Keiren
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keiren
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.