Meaning not yet researched.
Keven: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #595 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #595 in 1967; #6,006 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keven in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,006 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #595.
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Keven: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #595 in 1967 · most boys in one year: 225 (2003).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Keven, making it the 6,006th most common boys’ name of the year, up 336 places from #6,342 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 14 boys named Keven in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #595, reached in 1967. The most boys given the name in a single year was 225, in 2003. For comparison, it was #2,510 in 2015 and #1,519 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keven in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1930 with 5 babies. In all, 8,882 US babies have been given the name, 1.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,925 babies named Keven.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 265 US boys were named Keven; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kevin (1,189,844 babies since 1880), Kevon (5,503 babies since 1880), Kevan (3,531 babies since 1880) and Kevyn (2,381 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keiveon and Keyveon 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: Keiveon (6), Keyveon (5).
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 Keven 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 | — | — | 15 | #6,006 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,342 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,803 |
| 2022 | — | — | 18 | #5,330 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,670 |
| 2020 | — | — | 31 | #3,535 |
| 2019 | — | — | 22 | #4,565 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,483 |
| 2017 | — | — | 39 | #3,042 |
| 2016 | — | — | 62 | #2,195 |
| 2015 | — | — | 50 | #2,510 |
| 2014 | — | — | 62 | #2,191 |
| 2013 | — | — | 84 | #1,746 |
| 2012 | — | — | 90 | #1,694 |
| 2011 | — | — | 110 | #1,480 |
| 2010 | — | — | 163 | #1,140 |
| 2009 | — | — | 156 | #1,164 |
| 2008 | — | — | 176 | #1,067 |
| 2007 | — | — | 201 | #979 |
| 2006 | — | — | 210 | #916 |
| 2005 | — | — | 191 | #923 |
| 2004 | — | — | 181 | #937 |
| 2003 | — | — | 225 | #777 |
| 2002 | — | — | 198 | #839 |
| 2001 | — | — | 188 | #855 |
| 2000 | — | — | 199 | #811 |
| 1999 | — | — | 186 | #823 |
| 1998 | — | — | 185 | #814 |
| 1997 | — | — | 166 | #854 |
| 1996 | — | — | 158 | #871 |
| 1995 | — | — | 153 | #885 |
| 1994 | — | — | 187 | #770 |
| 1993 | — | — | 139 | #914 |
| 1992 | — | — | 143 | #886 |
| 1991 | — | — | 146 | #872 |
| 1990 | — | — | 114 | #990 |
| 1989 | — | — | 108 | #981 |
| 1988 | — | — | 107 | #925 |
| 1987 | — | — | 112 | #886 |
| 1986 | — | — | 81 | #1,031 |
| 1985 | — | — | 96 | #931 |
| 1984 | — | — | 97 | #888 |
| 1983 | — | — | 94 | #915 |
| 1982 | — | — | 88 | #962 |
| 1981 | — | — | 82 | #1,006 |
| 1980 | — | — | 85 | #977 |
| 1979 | — | — | 96 | #893 |
| 1978 | — | — | 123 | #764 |
| 1977 | — | — | 132 | #744 |
| 1976 | — | — | 106 | #813 |
| 1975 | — | — | 78 | #927 |
| 1974 | — | — | 90 | #847 |
| 1973 | — | — | 111 | #762 |
| 1972 | — | — | 137 | #685 |
| 1971 | — | — | 135 | #713 |
| 1970 | — | — | 166 | #629 |
| 1969 | — | — | 140 | #669 |
| 1968 | — | — | 144 | #631 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,728 | 160 | #595 |
| 1966 | — | — | 145 | #617 |
| 1965 | — | — | 145 | #630 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,214 | 166 | #608 |
| 1963 | — | — | 149 | #643 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,041 | 147 | #640 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,197 | 108 | #741 |
| 1960 | — | — | 139 | #666 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,464 | 101 | #758 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,827 | 136 | #662 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,714 | 127 | #679 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,588 | 134 | #655 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,922 | 79 | #828 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,906 | 80 | #812 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,406 | 47 | #1,071 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,670 | 37 | #1,217 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,140 | 44 | #1,089 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,816 | 24 | #1,519 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,450 | 20 | #1,688 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,405 | 8 | #2,907 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,013 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,292 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,592 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,293 |
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).