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Keaton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 333 in 2025. Its best rank was #353 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #353 in 2000; #771 in 2025. About 79% of babies named Keaton in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#771 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #353.
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Keaton: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 333 boys in 2025. Peak: #353 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 881 (2007).
In 2025, 333 US boys were named Keaton, making it the 771st most common boys’ name of the year, up 74 places from #845 in 2024. That is 45 more than the 288 boys named Keaton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #353, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 881, in 2007. For comparison, it was #480 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 86 US girls were named Keaton, making it the 2,164th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,666 places from #4,830 in 2024. That is 58 more than the 28 girls named Keaton in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,164, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 86. For comparison, it was #3,887 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keaton in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 5 babies. In all, 23,505 US babies have been given the name, 6.0% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,197 babies named Keaton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,946 US boys were named Keaton; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 548. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,129 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keaton ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #178 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Keeton, Keyton and Keaten are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keeton (924), Keyton (797), Keaten (363), Keatyn (355), Ketan (352), Keiton (282), Keithon (184), Keatin (75), Kyton (25), Keatan (22), Keyten (11), Keetan (10), and more.
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 Keaton 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 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 11 | #178 | #261 |
| Missouri | 19 | #341 | #300 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #420 | #285 |
| Iowa | 8 | #424 | #194 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #465 | #443 |
| Alabama | 10 | #502 | #378 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #550 | #187 |
| Kansas | 6 | #557 | #303 |
| Indiana | 12 | #565 | #307 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #575 | — |
| North Carolina | 17 | #582 | #480 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #593 | #303 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #611 | #413 |
| Michigan | 11 | #696 | #318 |
| Virginia | 10 | #706 | #765 |
| Colorado | 7 | #720 | #501 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #739 | #264 |
| Georgia | 12 | #769 | #404 |
| Florida | 18 | #829 | #665 |
| Ohio | 10 | #834 | #331 |
| Washington | 7 | #850 | #484 |
| Texas | 30 | #865 | #520 |
| Arizona | 6 | #892 | #755 |
| Illinois | 9 | #902 | #549 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #967 | #495 |
| California | 20 | #1,058 | #714 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,164 | 333 | #771 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,830 | 288 | #845 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,511 | 268 | #876 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,096 | 315 | #797 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,480 | 348 | #735 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,202 | 369 | #690 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,229 | 482 | #579 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,542 | 518 | #544 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,448 | 477 | #572 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,621 | 548 | #535 |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,887 | 623 | #480 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,058 | 694 | #439 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,540 | 701 | #421 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,616 | 750 | #394 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,970 | 814 | #365 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,384 | 804 | #367 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,838 | 802 | #379 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,403 | 833 | #369 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,408 | 881 | #358 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,118 | 781 | #382 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,533 | 808 | #366 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,767 | 794 | #354 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,267 | 735 | #363 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,628 | 670 | #389 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,341 | 682 | #383 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,096 | 761 | #353 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,214 | 737 | #354 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,946 | 717 | #364 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,008 | 675 | #366 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,774 | 525 | #429 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,321 | 516 | #445 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,657 | 444 | #481 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,318 | 378 | #524 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,150 | 374 | #522 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,576 | 303 | #584 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,682 | 283 | #592 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,973 | 225 | #667 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,862 | 163 | #741 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,350 | 135 | #800 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,834 | 131 | #794 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,239 | 109 | #870 |
| 1984 | — | — | 69 | #1,081 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,622 | 47 | #1,368 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,773 | 23 | #2,241 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #2,965 |
| 1980 | — | — | 26 | #2,084 |
| 1979 | — | — | 17 | #2,719 |
| 1978 | — | — | 24 | #2,042 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,729 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,170 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,123 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,015 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,811 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,208 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,673 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,094 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,346 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,582 |
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).