Meaning not yet researched.
Keelin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,590 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,590 in 2000; #9,325 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keelin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,325 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #3,590.
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Keelin: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,590 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 23 (2000).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Keelin, making it the 9,325th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,359 places from #11,684 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 6 boys named Keelin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,590, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 23. For comparison, it was #10,117 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Keelin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,566, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #7,440 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keelin in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 1,396 US babies have been given the name, 74% of them girls and 26% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 555 babies named Keelin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 84 US boys were named Keelin; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kellen (18,307 babies since 1880), Kellan (11,269 babies since 1880), Keelan (3,942 babies since 1880) and Kylin (3,449 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 Keelin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 8 | #9,325 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #11,684 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,363 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,461 | 7 | #10,347 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,647 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,816 | 12 | #6,833 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,913 | 13 | #6,604 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,962 | 12 | #6,929 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,033 | 9 | #8,511 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,798 | 9 | #8,497 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,440 | 7 | #10,117 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,320 | 12 | #6,864 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,403 | 9 | #8,467 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,903 | 14 | #6,163 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,756 | 11 | #7,265 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,801 | 18 | #5,145 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,422 | 17 | #5,436 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,743 | 12 | #6,985 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,409 | 12 | #6,870 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,590 | 5 | #13,068 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,685 | 9 | #8,006 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,533 | 11 | #6,777 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,502 | 5 | #11,865 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,566 | 9 | #7,354 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,281 | 16 | #4,790 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,369 | 23 | #3,590 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,215 | 16 | #4,463 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,457 | 8 | #7,223 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,326 | 15 | #4,362 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,117 | 10 | #5,778 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,422 | 14 | #4,407 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,953 | — | — |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,589 | 8 | #6,549 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,911 | 6 | #7,970 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,727 | 5 | #8,904 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,091 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,974 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,778 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,668 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,134 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,241 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,202 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,466 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,292 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,733 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,059 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,050 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,004 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,699 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,252 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,415 | — | — |
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).