Keithan

#7,004 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Keithan has been given to 787 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #7,004 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Keithan, 2025

1 in 276,000

Keithan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,004
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keithan 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keithan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keithans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keithan was born before 2005 — so the typical Keithan is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
787
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Choose a decade

2000s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (226).

Is Keithan 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
+2,434
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−174
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,601
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.3%
Peak was 2009 (34)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,892
1976

Spellings of Keithan

Keithan is not the most common spelling — Ethan is, with 51.4% against Keithan's 0.08%.

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 Keithan is used

Across 1910–2025, Keithan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 758,056 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Keithan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Keithan around the world

Where Keithan 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.

  • Canada
    2004–2010
    #2,386
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Keithan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,004
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 174
Best rank ever
#2,892
1976
Peak year
2009
34 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
787
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Keithan

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Sibling names for Keithan

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