Meaning not yet researched.
Keeley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 135 in 2025. Its best rank was #900 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #900 in 1997; #1,567 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keeley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,567 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #900.
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Keeley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 135 girls in 2025. Peak: #900 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 253 (2007).
In 2025, 135 US girls were named Keeley, making it the 1,567th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5 places from #1,572 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 135 girls named Keeley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #900, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 253, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,943 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keeley in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 6 babies. In all, 6,741 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,087 babies named Keeley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 963 US girls were named Keeley; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 140. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,906 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keeley ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #546 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kelly (556,365 babies since 1880), Kelley (52,385 babies since 1880), Kiley (20,272 babies since 1880) and Keely (12,719 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Keeley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 6 | #546 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #714 | — |
| Ohio | 11 | #844 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #893 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #983 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,054 | #1,159 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,183 | #1,371 |
| California | 10 | #2,024 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,327 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #3,119 | #2,125 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 135 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 2024 | 135 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 2022 | 122 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,522 | — | — |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,147 | — | — |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,317 | — | — |
| 2017 | 84 | #2,246 | — | — |
| 2016 | 83 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 2015 | 104 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 2014 | 149 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 2013 | 173 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 2012 | 159 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 2011 | 187 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 2010 | 216 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 2009 | 236 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 2008 | 246 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 2007 | 253 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 2006 | 201 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 2005 | 166 | #1,326 | 5 | #12,429 |
| 2004 | 161 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 2003 | 186 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 2002 | 223 | #988 | — | — |
| 2001 | 187 | #1,126 | 5 | #11,500 |
| 2000 | 213 | #995 | 5 | #11,328 |
| 1999 | 211 | #982 | 6 | #9,328 |
| 1998 | 195 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1997 | 224 | #900 | 6 | #8,724 |
| 1996 | 157 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1995 | 96 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 1992 | 121 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1990 | 112 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1988 | 96 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 1987 | 91 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1986 | 97 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1985 | 68 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1984 | 69 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1980 | 53 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1977 | 37 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,689 | 6 | #5,284 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,522 | — | — |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,861 | 6 | #4,814 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,935 | — | — |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,002 | 5 | #5,293 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,618 | 5 | #4,721 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,261 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,829 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,341 | — | — |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,124 | — | — |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,673 | — | — |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,889 | — | — |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,148 | — | — |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,739 | — | — |
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).