Keith
Keith is ranked 756th among boys in 2024 (336 births). Its best rank was 32nd, in 1966.
- Rank in 2024
- #756down 43 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3360.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 195712,437 births
- Best rank
- #32in 1966
- Since 1888
- 439,808people given the name
The story in the numbers
437,592 boys have been named Keith in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 12,437 births — 0.58% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 336 births in 2024, against 12,437 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1960s alone account for 26%. It has spent 135 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 46 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,216 girls have also been given it, 0.50% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Keith | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | |
| 1890s | 86 | |
| 1900s | 284 | |
| 1910s | 3,424 | |
| 1920s | 10,915 | |
| 1930s | 13,867 | |
| 1940s | 25,870 | |
| 1950s | 91,236 | |
| 1960s | 112,573 | |
| 1970s | 76,694 | |
| 1980s | 52,646 | |
| 1990s | 28,370 | |
| 2000s | 12,510 | |
| 2010s | 7,085 | |
| 2020s | 2,020 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Keith was the 36th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1957 were Michael, James, David, Robert and John. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Keith
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Darylpeak 1956
- Craigpeak 1960
- Dirkpeak 1954
- Kurtpeak 1964
- Terencepeak 1964
- Kirkpeak 1962
- Gregorypeak 1962
- Daryllpeak 1960
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.