Meaning not yet researched.
Keith: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 311 in 2025. Its best rank was #32 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #32 in 1966; #801 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keith in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#801 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #32.
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Keith: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 311 boys in 2025. Peak: #32 in 1966 · most boys in one year: 12,437 (1957).
In 2025, 311 US boys were named Keith, making it the 801st most common boys’ name of the year, down 45 places from #756 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 337 boys named Keith in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #32, reached in 1966. The most boys given the name in a single year was 12,437, in 1957. For comparison, it was #424 in 2015 and #78 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keith in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 6 babies. In all, 440,123 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 113,110 babies named Keith.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,638 US boys were named Keith; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 634. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keith ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #477 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kit (6,262 babies since 1880) and Kieth (2,837 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kitt, Keath and Keyth 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: Kitt (596), Keath (228), Keyth (59).
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 Keith 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 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 13 | #477 | #333 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #486 | #427 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #559 | #421 |
| Ohio | 18 | #568 | #241 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #594 | #496 |
| Florida | 28 | #609 | #376 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #654 | #439 |
| Utah | 6 | #664 | #530 |
| Georgia | 14 | #691 | #382 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #735 | #445 |
| Arizona | 8 | #751 | #508 |
| Maryland | 6 | #761 | #192 |
| Washington | 8 | #768 | #732 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #770 | #275 |
| New York | 18 | #786 | #475 |
| Virginia | 8 | #839 | #527 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #849 | #372 |
| Indiana | 6 | #904 | #319 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #906 | #464 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,052 | #281 |
| California | 20 | #1,059 | #593 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,086 | #362 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,109 | #323 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,120 | #594 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 311 | #801 |
| 2024 | — | — | 337 | #756 |
| 2023 | — | — | 373 | #713 |
| 2022 | — | — | 382 | #694 |
| 2021 | — | — | 470 | #592 |
| 2020 | — | — | 461 | #598 |
| 2019 | — | — | 512 | #550 |
| 2018 | — | — | 571 | #503 |
| 2017 | — | — | 587 | #493 |
| 2016 | — | — | 634 | #485 |
| 2015 | — | — | 729 | #424 |
| 2014 | — | — | 754 | #412 |
| 2013 | — | — | 761 | #393 |
| 2012 | — | — | 842 | #362 |
| 2011 | — | — | 806 | #368 |
| 2010 | — | — | 890 | #346 |
| 2009 | — | — | 967 | #329 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,061 | #315 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,306 | 1,158 | #298 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,250 | #276 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,165 | #285 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,190 | 1,315 | #252 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,871 | 1,313 | #251 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,518 | 1,326 | #248 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,432 | #237 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,321 | 1,525 | #222 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,662 | #206 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,785 | #190 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,897 | 2,000 | #169 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,041 | 2,183 | #159 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,538 | 2,457 | #142 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,876 | 2,785 | #126 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,433 | 3,265 | #109 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,150 | 3,628 | #102 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,787 | 4,124 | #89 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,309 | 4,481 | #80 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,829 | 4,893 | #70 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,616 | 4,949 | #70 |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,345 | 4,783 | #69 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,696 | 5,040 | #66 |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,269 | 5,214 | #64 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,245 | 5,327 | #61 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,372 | 5,313 | #61 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,510 | 5,620 | #59 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,284 | 5,621 | #58 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,408 | 5,887 | #56 |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,230 | 6,186 | #52 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,823 | 6,172 | #49 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,276 | 6,597 | #48 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,625 | 6,745 | #48 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,381 | 6,823 | #49 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,762 | 7,390 | #44 |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,556 | 8,165 | #41 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,869 | 9,145 | #38 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,836 | 9,851 | #37 |
| 1970 | 58 | #1,625 | 9,615 | #38 |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,767 | 9,445 | #36 |
| 1968 | 74 | #1,283 | 9,861 | #35 |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,409 | 11,006 | #34 |
| 1966 | 59 | #1,436 | 11,614 | #32 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,727 | 10,670 | #35 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,738 | 11,655 | #34 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,588 | 12,243 | #33 |
| 1962 | 55 | #1,516 | 11,626 | #36 |
| 1961 | 53 | #1,562 | 12,275 | #35 |
| 1960 | 45 | #1,684 | 12,180 | #35 |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,576 | 11,758 | #39 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,666 | 11,905 | #37 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,599 | 12,437 | #36 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,947 | 11,480 | #36 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,895 | 10,418 | #39 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,480 | 8,355 | #45 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,396 | 7,375 | #47 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,760 | 7,174 | #49 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,285 | 5,767 | #59 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,217 | 4,566 | #78 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,789 | 3,878 | #85 |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,549 | 3,660 | #89 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,979 | 3,684 | #91 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,271 | 2,860 | #96 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,839 | 2,165 | #108 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,242 | 2,293 | #104 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,779 | 2,382 | #108 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,901 | 1,785 | #123 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,950 | 1,652 | #119 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,103 | 1,512 | #125 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,288 | 1,506 | #117 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,663 | 1,535 | #120 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,628 | 1,342 | #123 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,937 | 1,402 | #122 |
| 1935 | — | — | 1,369 | #125 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,314 | 1,352 | #125 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,334 | 1,315 | #127 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,736 | 1,315 | #133 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,256 | 1,377 | #123 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,157 | 1,354 | #130 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,259 | 1,242 | #138 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,238 | 1,223 | #139 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,175 | 1,232 | #141 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,636 | 1,120 | #148 |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,154 | 1,138 | #146 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,524 | 1,071 | #150 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,679 | 1,104 | #145 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,433 | 984 | #157 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,848 | 998 | #153 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,001 | 803 | #175 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,331 | 653 | #194 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,388 | 580 | #214 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,948 | 518 | #216 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,415 | 476 | #224 |
| 1915 | — | — | 422 | #236 |
| 1914 | — | — | 291 | #251 |
| 1913 | — | — | 212 | #261 |
| 1912 | — | — | 169 | #273 |
| 1911 | — | — | 60 | #356 |
| 1910 | — | — | 43 | #411 |
| 1909 | — | — | 42 | #366 |
| 1908 | — | — | 42 | #351 |
| 1907 | — | — | 45 | #318 |
| 1906 | — | — | 31 | #391 |
| 1905 | — | — | 35 | #350 |
| 1904 | — | — | 17 | #551 |
| 1903 | — | — | 21 | #460 |
| 1902 | — | — | 20 | #482 |
| 1901 | — | — | 15 | #520 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,075 | 16 | #638 |
| 1899 | — | — | 14 | #532 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #945 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #893 |
| 1896 | — | — | 14 | #572 |
| 1895 | — | — | 6 | #1,031 |
| 1894 | — | — | 11 | #654 |
| 1893 | — | — | 13 | #558 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #910 |
| 1890 | — | — | 7 | #848 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #931 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #990 |
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).