Meaning not yet researched.
Kiefer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #710 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #710 in 1991; #11,399 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kiefer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,399 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #710.
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Kiefer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #710 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 204 (1991).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Kiefer, making it the 11,399th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,956 places from #13,355 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 5 boys named Kiefer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #710, reached in 1991. That year also had the most boys given the name: 204. For comparison, it was #4,034 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kiefer in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 35 babies. In all, 1,950 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 969 babies named Kiefer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 97 US boys were named Kiefer; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Keifer (1,155 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keefer, Kieffer and Keiffer 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: Keefer (315), Kieffer (166), Keiffer (164), Keffer (7).
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 Kiefer 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 | — | — | 6 | #11,399 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #13,355 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #11,612 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,385 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,824 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,573 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #6,947 |
| 2017 | — | — | 17 | #5,420 |
| 2016 | — | — | 21 | #4,703 |
| 2015 | — | — | 26 | #4,034 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,423 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,254 |
| 2012 | — | — | 36 | #3,146 |
| 2011 | — | — | 31 | #3,481 |
| 2010 | — | — | 49 | #2,533 |
| 2009 | — | — | 48 | #2,608 |
| 2008 | — | — | 55 | #2,363 |
| 2007 | — | — | 65 | #2,104 |
| 2006 | — | — | 84 | #1,693 |
| 2005 | — | — | 64 | #1,975 |
| 2004 | — | — | 68 | #1,823 |
| 2003 | — | — | 61 | #1,922 |
| 2002 | — | — | 57 | #1,961 |
| 2001 | — | — | 24 | #3,574 |
| 2000 | — | — | 33 | #2,780 |
| 1999 | — | — | 52 | #1,891 |
| 1998 | — | — | 53 | #1,861 |
| 1997 | — | — | 71 | #1,493 |
| 1996 | — | — | 68 | #1,491 |
| 1995 | — | — | 70 | #1,425 |
| 1994 | — | — | 97 | #1,158 |
| 1993 | — | — | 97 | #1,146 |
| 1992 | — | — | 114 | #1,028 |
| 1991 | — | — | 204 | #710 |
| 1990 | — | — | 143 | #855 |
| 1989 | — | — | 93 | #1,100 |
| 1988 | — | — | 35 | #1,896 |
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).