Meaning not yet researched.
Keiran: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,120 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,120 in 2011; #5,727 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keiran in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,727 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #2,120.
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Keiran: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,120 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 63 (2011).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Keiran, making it the 5,727th most common boys’ name of the year, down 557 places from #5,170 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 19 boys named Keiran in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,120, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 63. For comparison, it was #2,791 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Keiran in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #7,249, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 18. For comparison, it was #13,749 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keiran in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 1,186 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 475 babies named Keiran.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 263 US boys were named Keiran; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kieran (19,218 babies since 1880), Kiran (5,041 babies since 1880), Keren (5,014 babies since 1880) and Kyran (3,282 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kerrian 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: Kerrian (23).
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 Keiran 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 | — | — | 16 | #5,727 |
| 2024 | — | — | 19 | #5,170 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,798 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,939 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,440 |
| 2020 | — | — | 26 | #3,973 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,955 |
| 2018 | — | — | 25 | #4,156 |
| 2017 | — | — | 36 | #3,218 |
| 2016 | — | — | 55 | #2,375 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,749 | 43 | #2,791 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,461 | 36 | #3,131 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,473 | 50 | #2,481 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,753 | 41 | #2,890 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,686 | 63 | #2,120 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,451 | 51 | #2,452 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,069 | 50 | #2,546 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,338 | 50 | #2,531 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,249 | 40 | #2,952 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,259 | 39 | #2,907 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,427 | 38 | #2,821 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,298 | 33 | #3,050 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,803 | 45 | #2,377 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,516 | 25 | #3,512 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,914 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,298 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,003 | 30 | #2,833 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,256 | 24 | #3,243 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,378 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,761 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,719 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,682 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #5,997 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,064 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,747 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,647 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,593 |
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).