Keyan
#3,556 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Keyan has been given to 1,389 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #3,556 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 63 recorded.
Babies named Keyan, 2025
1 in 104,000
Keyan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Keyan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 104,000
- 32 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 53,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,556
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 71,810 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Keyan sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Keyans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Keyan was born before 2008 — so the typical Keyan is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 31.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 75.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,382
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (436).
Is Keyan 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
- +95
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −179
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −930
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.68×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.8%
- Peak was 2007 (63)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 11.4% average annual change
Spellings of Keyan
Keyan is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 30.9% against Keyan's 0.04%.
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 Keyan is used
Across 1910–2025, Keyan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 544,567 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
- 4Indiana1 in —
- 5Pennsylvania1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
- 7Virginia1 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. Keyan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Keyan around the world
Where Keyan 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,798in 2025
- Scotland2017–2017#733in 2017
- France2001–2025#1,284in 2025
- Canada1997–2024#2,550in 2024
- South Australia1998–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Keyan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Keyan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Keyan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.