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Keiran

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Keiran is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
190.00% of boys
Peak year
201163 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1989
1,170people given the name
Babies named Keiran, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,027 boys have been named Keiran in the United States since 1989, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 63 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 42%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 143 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Keiran
1980s5
1990s132
2000s359
2010s427
2020s104

In 2011, its biggest year

Keiran was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2011 were Jacob, Mason, William, Jayden and Noah. See all of 2011.

Names that rose and fell with Keiran

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.