Keivan

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Keivan has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 1996, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Keivan, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

Keivan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keivan 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keivan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Keivans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keivan was born before 1999 — so the typical Keivan is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
49.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
55
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 49.1% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Keivan 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1996 (11)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,357
1996

Spellings of Keivan

Keivan is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 63.9% against Keivan's <0.01%.

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.

Keivan around the world

Where Keivan 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
    2017–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • France
    1992–2024
    #4,562
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017

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.

Keivan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,357
1996
Peak year
1996
11 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
55
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Keivan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Keivan

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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