Meaning not yet researched.
Keelan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 55 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,205 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,205 in 2000; #2,463 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keelan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,463 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,205.
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Keelan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 55 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,205 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 135 (2015).
In 2025, 55 US boys were named Keelan, making it the 2,463rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 283 places from #2,180 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 67 boys named Keelan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,205, reached in 2000. The most boys given the name in a single year was 135, in 2015. For comparison, it was #1,313 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keelan in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 7 babies. In all, 3,942 US babies have been given the name, 8.9% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,289 babies named Keelan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 863 US boys were named Keelan; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 123. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,056 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keelan ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,436 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kellen (18,307 babies since 1880), Kylan (11,821 babies since 1880), Kellan (11,269 babies since 1880) and Kellyn (2,209 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kielyn and Keelynn 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: Kielyn (96), Keelynn (93).
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 Keelan 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,436 | #1,088 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 55 | #2,463 |
| 2024 | — | — | 67 | #2,180 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,385 | 58 | #2,374 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,515 | 78 | #1,974 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,858 | 88 | #1,797 |
| 2020 | — | — | 86 | #1,772 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,121 | 123 | #1,426 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,906 | 105 | #1,586 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,155 | 96 | #1,654 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,617 | 107 | #1,551 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,388 | 135 | #1,313 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,258 | 135 | #1,312 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,354 | 117 | #1,423 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,022 | 113 | #1,460 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,267 | 112 | #1,462 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,361 | 131 | #1,314 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,148 | 98 | #1,619 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,928 | 115 | #1,443 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,248 | 134 | #1,301 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,490 | 100 | #1,516 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,464 | 79 | #1,702 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,470 | 66 | #1,869 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,135 | 99 | #1,369 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,248 | 81 | #1,539 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,701 | 96 | #1,347 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,646 | 113 | #1,205 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,507 | 86 | #1,378 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,250 | 79 | #1,440 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,071 | 87 | #1,313 |
| 1996 | — | — | 56 | #1,699 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,105 | 74 | #1,373 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,513 | 53 | #1,701 |
| 1993 | — | — | 44 | #1,884 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,103 | 48 | #1,759 |
| 1991 | — | — | 53 | #1,601 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,763 | 40 | #1,921 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,528 | 35 | #2,046 |
| 1988 | — | — | 32 | #2,016 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,503 | 30 | #2,034 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,733 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,238 | 20 | #2,554 |
| 1984 | — | — | 28 | #1,955 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,459 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,774 | 26 | #2,086 |
| 1981 | — | — | 16 | #2,835 |
| 1980 | — | — | 32 | #1,788 |
| 1979 | — | — | 22 | #2,278 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,304 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #2,979 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,865 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,834 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,386 | 9 | #3,707 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,813 |
| 1972 | — | — | 20 | #2,051 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,680 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,435 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,409 |
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).