Meaning not yet researched.
Keilan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,119 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,119 in 2011; #3,481 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keilan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,481 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #2,119.
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Keilan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,119 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 64 (2007).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Keilan, making it the 3,481st most common boys’ name of the year, up 81 places from #3,562 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 32 boys named Keilan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,119, reached in 2011. The most boys given the name in a single year was 64, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,548 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keilan in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 1,368 US babies have been given the name, 3.1% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 496 babies named Keilan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 391 US boys were named Keilan; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Keelan (3,942 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Keilan 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 | — | — | 33 | #3,481 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,562 |
| 2023 | — | — | 41 | #3,035 |
| 2022 | — | — | 41 | #3,034 |
| 2021 | — | — | 27 | #3,958 |
| 2020 | — | — | 47 | #2,675 |
| 2019 | — | — | 49 | #2,643 |
| 2018 | — | — | 40 | #2,973 |
| 2017 | — | — | 33 | #3,417 |
| 2016 | — | — | 48 | #2,605 |
| 2015 | — | — | 49 | #2,548 |
| 2014 | — | — | 55 | #2,359 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,382 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,806 | 45 | #2,699 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,208 | 63 | #2,119 |
| 2010 | — | — | 48 | #2,569 |
| 2009 | — | — | 60 | #2,217 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,459 | 57 | #2,305 |
| 2007 | — | — | 64 | #2,127 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,625 | 34 | #3,190 |
| 2005 | — | — | 24 | #3,880 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,111 | 36 | #2,867 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,063 | 31 | #3,078 |
| 2002 | — | — | 33 | #2,852 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,524 | 38 | #2,548 |
| 2000 | — | — | 40 | #2,407 |
| 1999 | — | — | 35 | #2,529 |
| 1998 | — | — | 27 | #2,978 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,155 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,482 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,776 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,683 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,581 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #5,892 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,241 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,140 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,592 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,467 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,795 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,774 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,436 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,043 |
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).