Meaning not yet researched.
Keenan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 149 in 2025. Its best rank was #354 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #354 in 1997; #1,307 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keenan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,307 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #354.
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Keenan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 149 boys in 2025. Peak: #354 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 717 (1997).
In 2025, 149 US boys were named Keenan, making it the 1,307th most common boys’ name of the year, down 91 places from #1,216 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 167 boys named Keenan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #354, reached in 1997. That year also had the most boys given the name: 717. For comparison, it was #932 in 2015 and #2,155 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keenan in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 7 babies. In all, 18,515 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 6,097 babies named Keenan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,072 US boys were named Keenan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 274. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,464 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keenan ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #352 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kenan (4,675 babies since 1880), Keenen (1,181 babies since 1880) and Kenyan (968 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kennon, Kennan and Keanan 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: Kennon (1,826), Kennan (1,276), Keanan (623), Keenon (581), Kenon (406), Kinan (371), Kynan (370), Keynan (355), Kienan (316), Kennen (287), Keinan (199), Keanon (153), and more.
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 Keenan 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 5 | #352 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #810 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #932 | #1,066 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #977 | #867 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,075 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,170 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,290 | #958 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,381 | #878 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,448 | #1,089 |
| New York | 5 | #1,905 | #1,198 |
| California | 8 | #1,921 | #1,103 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 149 | #1,307 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,478 | 167 | #1,216 |
| 2023 | — | — | 188 | #1,125 |
| 2022 | — | — | 181 | #1,150 |
| 2021 | — | — | 204 | #1,052 |
| 2020 | — | — | 216 | #988 |
| 2019 | — | — | 228 | #944 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,908 | 231 | #923 |
| 2017 | — | — | 234 | #914 |
| 2016 | — | — | 274 | #830 |
| 2015 | — | — | 227 | #932 |
| 2014 | — | — | 278 | #820 |
| 2013 | — | — | 209 | #957 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,074 | 237 | #885 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,805 | 263 | #826 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,243 | 300 | #753 |
| 2009 | — | — | 310 | #746 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,023 | 318 | #727 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,302 | 364 | #658 |
| 2006 | — | — | 394 | #607 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,425 | 381 | #593 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,176 | 382 | #584 |
| 2003 | — | — | 382 | #579 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,662 | 364 | #587 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,737 | 377 | #557 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,526 | 411 | #532 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,599 | 446 | #492 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,251 | 492 | #457 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,410 | 717 | #354 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,846 | 595 | #397 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,833 | 623 | #381 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,345 | 590 | #394 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,582 | 613 | #379 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,861 | 652 | #363 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,281 | 667 | #359 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,283 | 592 | #391 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,719 | 395 | #481 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,757 | 333 | #502 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,042 | 289 | #531 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,783 | 274 | #539 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,688 | 272 | #529 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,204 | 212 | #581 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,286 | 225 | #562 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,114 | 171 | #670 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,082 | 167 | #667 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,739 | 181 | #646 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,235 | 146 | #716 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,051 | 131 | #740 |
| 1977 | — | — | 115 | #801 |
| 1976 | — | — | 128 | #738 |
| 1975 | — | — | 126 | #744 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,387 | 113 | #764 |
| 1973 | — | — | 102 | #789 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,232 | 104 | #785 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,281 | 98 | #819 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,612 | 110 | #786 |
| 1969 | — | — | 84 | #838 |
| 1968 | — | — | 66 | #889 |
| 1967 | — | — | 79 | #815 |
| 1966 | — | — | 93 | #759 |
| 1965 | — | — | 69 | #886 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,359 | 92 | #785 |
| 1963 | — | — | 120 | #715 |
| 1962 | — | — | 97 | #773 |
| 1961 | — | — | 60 | #1,009 |
| 1960 | — | — | 106 | #751 |
| 1959 | — | — | 68 | #934 |
| 1958 | — | — | 66 | #940 |
| 1957 | — | — | 45 | #1,158 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,714 |
| 1955 | — | — | 31 | #1,387 |
| 1954 | — | — | 18 | #1,858 |
| 1953 | — | — | 17 | #1,927 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,440 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,195 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,155 |
| 1949 | — | — | 12 | #2,279 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,527 |
| 1947 | — | — | 18 | #1,820 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,090 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,322 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,078 |
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).