Meaning not yet researched.
Keagan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 105 in 2025. Its best rank was #489 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #489 in 2008; #1,614 in 2025. About 78% of babies named Keagan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,614 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #489.
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Keagan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 105 boys in 2025. Peak: #489 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 564 (2008).
In 2025, 105 US boys were named Keagan, making it the 1,614th most common boys’ name of the year, up 12 places from #1,626 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 105 boys named Keagan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #489, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 564. For comparison, it was #794 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 29 US girls were named Keagan, making it the 4,703rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 625 places from #4,078 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 36 girls named Keagan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,979, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 104. For comparison, it was #2,575 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keagan in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 7 babies. In all, 10,541 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,269 babies named Keagan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,653 US boys were named Keagan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 258. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,267 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keagan ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #840 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Keegan (42,324 babies since 1880), Kegan (4,085 babies since 1880) and Keagen (1,069 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Keagan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 5 | #840 | #635 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #976 | #944 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,161 | #878 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,176 | #526 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,610 | #828 |
| California | 6 | #2,342 | #1,498 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,703 | 105 | #1,614 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,078 | 105 | #1,626 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,697 | 104 | #1,657 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,851 | 128 | #1,431 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,712 | 122 | #1,475 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,874 | 169 | #1,150 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,910 | 178 | #1,109 |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,225 | 234 | #919 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,595 | 250 | #870 |
| 2016 | 58 | #2,924 | 258 | #869 |
| 2015 | 70 | #2,575 | 294 | #794 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,490 | 321 | #742 |
| 2013 | 80 | #2,318 | 342 | #699 |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,439 | 437 | #585 |
| 2011 | 70 | #2,572 | 440 | #568 |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,281 | 492 | #527 |
| 2009 | 96 | #2,109 | 522 | #515 |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,147 | 564 | #489 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,979 | 493 | #524 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,998 | 383 | #620 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,296 | 327 | #658 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,244 | 286 | #693 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,695 | 323 | #636 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,119 | 245 | #726 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,897 | 255 | #702 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,617 | 235 | #731 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,282 | 186 | #822 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,558 | 147 | #951 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,921 | 124 | #1,034 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,393 | 126 | #991 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,117 | 103 | #1,129 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,132 | 87 | #1,251 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,325 | 72 | #1,351 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,053 | 76 | #1,297 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,171 | 51 | #1,636 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,575 | 42 | #1,859 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,526 | 37 | #1,972 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,762 | 26 | #2,333 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,666 | 14 | #3,435 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,992 | 15 | #3,207 |
| 1985 | — | — | 12 | #3,695 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,602 | 8 | #4,777 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,574 | 7 | #5,208 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,157 | 5 | #6,874 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,342 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,147 | 9 | #4,323 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,235 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,871 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).