Meaning not yet researched.
Keegan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 449 in 2025. Its best rank was #222 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #222 in 2007; #621 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Keegan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#621 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #222.
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Keegan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 449 boys in 2025. Peak: #222 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 1,707 (2007).
In 2025, 449 US boys were named Keegan, making it the 621st most common boys’ name of the year, down 28 places from #593 in 2024. That is 35 fewer than the 484 boys named Keegan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #222, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,707. For comparison, it was #274 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keegan in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 7 babies. In all, 42,324 US babies have been given the name, 9.0% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 15,335 babies named Keegan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,172 US boys were named Keegan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,295. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,804 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keegan ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #241 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Keagan (10,541 babies since 1880), Kegan (4,085 babies since 1880) and Keagen (1,069 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keigan, Keygan and Keegen are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keigan (1,086), Keygan (408), Keegen (299), Keagon (215), Kiegan (165), Keigen (88), Keegin (33), Keagyn (32), Keagin (31), Keegon (17), Keegun (6).
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 Keegan 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 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 8 | #241 | #206 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #260 | #196 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #349 | #198 |
| Iowa | 10 | #358 | #213 |
| Illinois | 29 | #372 | #242 |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #392 | #192 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #401 | #177 |
| Michigan | 22 | #402 | #169 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #404 | #225 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #411 | #256 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #461 | #224 |
| Virginia | 16 | #484 | #268 |
| Ohio | 22 | #485 | #177 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #528 | #319 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #537 | #179 |
| Colorado | 10 | #554 | #264 |
| Oregon | 6 | #564 | #442 |
| Indiana | 11 | #603 | #145 |
| Maryland | 8 | #606 | #334 |
| Missouri | 9 | #620 | #190 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #627 | #527 |
| Alabama | 7 | #652 | #213 |
| New York | 20 | #732 | #288 |
| Florida | 21 | #738 | #311 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #754 | #220 |
| Georgia | 11 | #819 | #255 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #842 | #322 |
| Arizona | 5 | #982 | #319 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,028 | #449 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,074 | #388 |
| California | 14 | #1,336 | #608 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #3,275 | 449 | #621 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,954 | 484 | #593 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,686 | 443 | #627 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,978 | 523 | #566 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,470 | 599 | #492 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,482 | 592 | #496 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,470 | 723 | #425 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,154 | 940 | #353 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,730 | 1,124 | #309 |
| 2016 | 114 | #1,824 | 1,295 | #283 |
| 2015 | 130 | #1,650 | 1,346 | #274 |
| 2014 | 119 | #1,751 | 1,560 | #238 |
| 2013 | 143 | #1,535 | 1,458 | #249 |
| 2012 | 114 | #1,797 | 1,472 | #245 |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,648 | 1,370 | #253 |
| 2010 | 133 | #1,627 | 1,430 | #246 |
| 2009 | 129 | #1,715 | 1,597 | #228 |
| 2008 | 160 | #1,472 | 1,683 | #223 |
| 2007 | 181 | #1,348 | 1,707 | #222 |
| 2006 | 125 | #1,685 | 1,594 | #227 |
| 2005 | 109 | #1,796 | 1,390 | #242 |
| 2004 | 118 | #1,651 | 1,293 | #257 |
| 2003 | 107 | #1,765 | 1,271 | #259 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,615 | 1,284 | #253 |
| 2001 | 112 | #1,635 | 1,158 | #271 |
| 2000 | 122 | #1,508 | 1,080 | #285 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,908 | 957 | #300 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,909 | 928 | #305 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,010 | 804 | #326 |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,850 | 799 | #330 |
| 1995 | 64 | #2,109 | 669 | #359 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,222 | 606 | #385 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,789 | 516 | #431 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,708 | 485 | #454 |
| 1991 | 56 | #2,310 | 442 | #471 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,871 | 385 | #501 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,209 | 329 | #528 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,724 | 214 | #647 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,057 | 188 | #668 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,808 | 165 | #703 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,621 | 205 | #610 |
| 1984 | 46 | #2,164 | 157 | #698 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,254 | 126 | #777 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,612 | 121 | #806 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,089 | 106 | #862 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,836 | 110 | #845 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,943 | 82 | #981 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,049 | 67 | #1,063 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,347 | 48 | #1,300 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,746 | 45 | #1,327 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,919 |
| 1974 | — | — | 24 | #1,913 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,893 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,210 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,806 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,575 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,770 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,405 |
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).