Meaning not yet researched.
Keelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,596 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,596 in 2010; #11,417 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,417 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #2,596.
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Keelyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,596 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 70 (2010).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Keelyn, making it the 11,417th most common girls’ name of the year, down 729 places from #10,688 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 9 girls named Keelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,596, reached in 2010. That year also had the most girls given the name: 70. For comparison, it was #5,750 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Keelyn in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #4,911, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 19. For comparison, it was #7,313 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keelyn in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 1,162 US babies have been given the name, 74% of them girls and 26% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 474 babies named Keelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 140 US girls were named Keelyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls 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 Kellyn (2,209 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 Keelyn 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 | #11,417 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,688 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,964 | 8 | #9,364 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,663 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,933 | 8 | #9,270 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,490 | 17 | #5,364 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,711 | 15 | #5,968 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,254 | 13 | #6,537 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,649 | 11 | #7,327 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,481 | 10 | #7,888 |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,750 | 11 | #7,313 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,505 | 11 | #7,305 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,123 | 9 | #8,468 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,680 | 17 | #5,381 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,074 | 19 | #4,911 |
| 2010 | 70 | #2,596 | 14 | #6,218 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,917 | 16 | #5,701 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,508 | 9 | #8,674 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,025 | 14 | #6,109 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,043 | 16 | #5,428 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,772 | 5 | #12,430 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,140 | 8 | #8,552 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,025 | 7 | #9,183 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,698 | — | — |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,664 | 9 | #7,222 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,718 | 6 | #9,733 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,332 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,935 | 9 | #6,579 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,748 | 9 | #6,376 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,487 | 5 | #9,798 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,281 | 6 | #8,358 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,204 | 6 | #8,296 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,567 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,506 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,828 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,764 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,529 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,181 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,907 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,203 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,293 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,667 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,012 | — | — |
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).