Meaning not yet researched.
Keller: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 76 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,093 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,093 in 2012; #2,000 in 2025. About 83% of babies named Keller in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,000 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,093.
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Keller: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 76 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,093 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 171 (2014).
In 2025, 76 US boys were named Keller, making it the 2,000th most common boys’ name of the year, down 406 places from #1,594 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 108 boys named Keller in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,093, reached in 2012. The most boys given the name in a single year was 171, in 2014. For comparison, it was #1,170 in 2015 and #3,511 in 1950.
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Keller, making it the 6,980th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,099 places from #5,881 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 21 girls named Keller in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,840, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 29. For comparison, it was #6,855 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keller in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 4,172 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,589 babies named Keller.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,065 US boys were named Keller; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 140. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keller ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #631 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kyler (41,378 babies since 1880), Kellen (18,307 babies since 1880) and Keylor (738 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kellar and Keilor 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: Kellar (98), Keilor (10).
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 Keller 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 7 | #631 | #759 |
| Missouri | 5 | #932 | #900 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,980 | 76 | #2,000 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,881 | 108 | #1,594 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,092 | 105 | #1,643 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,845 | 89 | #1,821 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,848 | 84 | #1,847 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,205 | 115 | #1,482 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,893 | 118 | #1,469 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,373 | 107 | #1,570 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,678 | 123 | #1,416 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,078 | 140 | #1,302 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,855 | 159 | #1,170 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,840 | 171 | #1,123 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,219 | 130 | #1,324 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,799 | 171 | #1,093 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,904 | 158 | #1,145 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,507 | 125 | #1,364 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,478 | 144 | #1,246 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,215 | 153 | #1,173 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,078 | 135 | #1,293 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,682 | 160 | #1,099 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,796 | 146 | #1,124 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,118 | 122 | #1,241 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,373 | 90 | #1,459 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,649 | 66 | #1,756 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,062 | 56 | #1,946 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,324 | 56 | #1,885 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,871 | 40 | #2,286 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,702 | 43 | #2,141 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,436 | 46 | #1,980 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,490 | 36 | #2,277 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,113 | 35 | #2,276 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,530 | 21 | #3,279 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,576 | 33 | #2,322 |
| 1992 | — | — | 20 | #3,285 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,246 | 26 | #2,643 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,091 | 14 | #4,088 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,537 | 18 | #3,273 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,769 | 9 | #5,013 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,762 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,287 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,467 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,283 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,016 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,879 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #6,799 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,798 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,362 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,047 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,130 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,618 | 9 | #3,406 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,254 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,952 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,574 | — | — |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,498 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,511 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,907 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,945 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,321 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,006 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,760 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,924 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,470 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,575 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,755 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,965 |
| 1924 | — | — | 12 | #2,557 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,555 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,653 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,110 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,541 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,285 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,220 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,232 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,366 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,651 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,732 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,880 |
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).